A12 road (Belgium)

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A12
Flemish government
Length55 km (34 mi)
Location
CountryBelgium
Highway system
  • Highways of Belgium

The A12 is an incomplete motorway in

at-grade intersections that contain also the frontage roads. There, from Schelle, it is again a motorway. Then, in Boom, a tunnel leads the A12 under the Rupel river, where the frontage roads take a bridge and then fuse with the motorway itself. Between Breendonk and Sint-Brixius-Rode, there are again at-grade intersections, and then it is again a motorway, until Brussels, where it ends onto the Brussels Ring
.

There are plans to gradually convert the road into a full motorway. Therefore, exits would be built replacing the two intersections in Westrode/Londerzeel and a bridge replacing the intersection near Breendonk. However, in 2010, the intersections are being modernised instead and a frontage road is partially being built in the direction of Brussels.

Between Zandvliet and Stabroek (north of Antwerp), the railway runs on the

central reservation
.

Unusually for a motorway in Belgium, the A12 is not part of the E-road network. However, for much of its length it runs a few kilometers to the west of and parallel with the A1 which forms a part of the European route E19.

Pictures

  • Picture of the A12 and the railway line 11
    Picture of the A12 and the railway line 11
  • The A12 in the direction of Willebroek
    The A12 in the direction of Willebroek
  • The A12 near Zandvliet, in the direction of Bergen-op-Zoom
    The A12 near Zandvliet, in the direction of
    Bergen-op-Zoom

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