A1 motorway (Luxembourg) explained

Country:LUX
Type:A
Route:1
Alternate Name:Autoroute de Trèves
Map:Luxembourg A1.png
Length Km:36.203
Length Round:3
Direction A:Western
Terminus A:Croix de Gasperich for
Luxembourg City, A3, A6
Direction B:Eastern
Junction:Kirchberg
Luxembourg Airport
Munsbach
Mertert
Wasserbillig
Terminus B:
Sauer Valley Bridge & Bundesautobahn 64
for Trier
Formed:1969
History:Completed: 23 September 1996

The Autoroute 1, abbreviated to A1 or otherwise known as the Trier motorway (Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch: Tréierer Autobunn, French: Autoroute de Trèves), is a motorway in Luxembourg. It is 36.203km (22.496miles) long and connects Luxembourg City, in the south, to Wasserbillig, in the east. A few hundred metres to the north of Wasserbillig, it reaches the German border, whereupon it becomes the A64, which leads to Trier.

Overview

Originally a connection from Luxembourg City to Luxembourg Airport, at Senningerberg, in 1969, the A1 was extended in three stages from 1988 to 1992 to connect to the German border. From 1994 to 1996, two more sections were opened, bypassing the south-east of Luxembourg City and connecting the A1 to the Croix de Gasperich, where it meets the A3 (to Dudelange) and A6 (towards Arlon, in Belgium).

In all, the A1 was opened in six separate sections:

Route

Junctions and structures
Croix de Gasperich /
Howald Tunnel
Victor Bodson Bridge
(J7) Hamm / Sandweiler
Cents Tunnel
Neudorf Viaduct
/ (J8) Kirchberg / Grunewald Junction /
(J9) Senningerberg / Airport
(J10)Cargo Centre
(J11) Munsbach
Syre Viaduct
(J12) Flaxweiler
(J13) Potaschbierg
(J14) Mertert
(J15) Wasserbillig
/ Wasserbillig services
Border with Germany

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Evolution du réseau autoroutier . 29 December 2008 . Administration des Ponts et Chaussées . 24 January 2008 . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090303095145/http://www.pch.public.lu/reseau_routier/autoroutes/evolution/index.html . 3 March 2009 .