Stau-altraum: A8 closed for days-this is how you avoid chaos!

The A8 alb relegation between Stuttgart and Ulm will be completely closed from Friday, 10 p.m. to Monday, 5 a.m. This measure affects the section between the Ulm-West and Mühlhausen junctions in the direction of Ulm, while the direction of travel in Munich remains unaffected by the blocking, as the Schwäbische Zeitung reported.

The Autobahn GmbH recommends that the drivers switch off the navigation device to avoid traffic chaos on the bypass. For long -distance transport towards Mannheim and Heilbronn, a diversion from the Ulm/Elchingen motorway junction via the A7 and A6 is recommended. If you drive towards Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, you should drive from the Ulm-West junction via Geislingen an der Steige and Göppingen through the B10 and B313 to the Wendlingen junction. Local traffic is also diverted from the Ulm-West junction via the B10 and B466 to the Mühlhausen junction.

Details on the traffic situation

local drivers are asked to avoid the area far. During the closure, the junctions in Merklingen and Hohenstadt are closed for the driveway to the highway towards Stuttgart. In addition, the Aichen motorway service area is no longer accessible from Friday, 6 p.m.; Other parking spaces along the route have been closed since Wednesday.

The A8 am Albtrauf was built between 1936 and 1956 and has a steep and winding route that has a height difference of 230 meters. The route currently burdens up to 70,000 vehicles every day, which has reached its load limit. Planned new construction work should make the route shorter and reduce the maximum climb. Two tunnels and two bridges are to be used, as the Autobahn GmbH

The new construction of the A8 bridge in the direction of Ulm via the B466 near Mühlhausen will be realized in the next around one and a half years. The official groundbreaking for this construction work took place today, in which high -ranking representatives of the Ministry of Transport took part. The old bridge, which was built in 1939, cannot be upgraded for technical reasons. The construction costs for the new building amount to 6.9 million euros and provide for the construction of two new bridges, with a make -up steel bridge being built in parallel to the existing one. This construction is said to take about half a year before the old building is canceled.

The new bridge is planned as a steel composite construction and is intended to use numerous finished components to shorten the construction period. After completion of the new bridge, the provisional roadway is dismantled and the area is renatured. The replacement building is of great importance until the albaufstieg was completed, probably in 2032.