It is necessary because of the huge traffic, but many people protest the investment.
Germany's A5 motorway will be widened to a standard width of 30 kilometres, two to ten lanes, according to a feasibility study just published after a lengthy lawsuit – Economics writes In his article Thursday Based on Spiegel.
The main reason for the development, according to the study, is that the traffic load expected by the end of the decade cannot be handled without 10 lanes in each direction. The section at the intersection of the A5 and A3 is already one of the busiest roads in Germany, with six or eight lanes of traffic between Frankfurt, the city complex, and one of the busiest airports in Europe.
The economic portal wrote that, according to the analysis prepared by experts in transportation sciences at Ruhr University, 10 lanes must be built in each direction at a distance of 29 kilometers, so that there is no permanent congestion, but rather continuous progress on the car line, which is expected to rise to 200,000 cars per day by the year. 2030.
However, for large-scale development, homes, parks and natural habitats would have to be destroyed, and the noise level would increase dramatically. According to critics, the €1.1 billion allocated to expand highways should be used to develop public transport, reports Economics.
