A4-motorway: Additional bans on passing for trucks
Expansion of the A4-motorway from Fischamend to the national border until 2023; No passing for trucks over 3.5 tonnes between Fischamend and Neusiedl
The traffic safety package for the A4 eastern motorway is entering its next phase. Following the first immediate measures in 2013, the motorways and expressways-financing company ASFINAG has started the three-lane expansion of A4 from the airport to Fischamend today. Until the end of 2015 both directions will be widened to three lanes.
The expansion of the more than 60 km A4-motorway will be effected in four stages with as little traffic delays as possible, and is budgeted at a total cost of EUR 345 million.
• Step one: immediate safety measures (more check rails and reflectors, better signs and „rumble strips“ to avoid accidents) from Fischamend to the border at Nickelsdorf (completed)
• Step two: three-lane expansion of A 4 from the airport to Fischamend (start of construction : April 23, 2014)
• Step three: general renovation of the route from Neusiedl to the state border (start of construction: 2015)
• Step four: three-lane expansion from Fischamend to Neusiedl (start of construction: 2018)
In line with that a program of additional security measures for A 4 will be implemented, including
• A ban on passing for trucks over 3.5 tonnes (instead of previously over 7.5 tonnes) from Fischamend to Neusiedl – thus also for lighter trucks and in the two-laned region of the A 4
• Installation of radar units with front photography at critical spots
• The possibility for increased distance control (already completed in Bruck West)
• The construction of a new traffic control place at the A 4 (Bruck an der Leitha) completion: autumn 2015
By 2020, according to experts, the traffic on the A4 motorway will increase at peak times from the current daily 65,000 to 75,000 vehicles. Therefore, the expansion and renovation of the A 4 is considered to be a need of the hour. The A4 motorway is used by a high proportion of trucks (17 per cent instead of the normal average of 13 per cent). 56 per cent of accidents are rear-end collisions – in many cases in conjunction with trucks The result: dangerous situations, obstructions and long traffic jams.
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