A12 road (Belgium)
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A12 | |
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Flemish government | |
Length | 55 km (34 mi) |
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Country | Belgium |
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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
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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
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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
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Picture of the A12 and the railway line 11
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The A12 in the direction of Willebroek
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The A12 near Zandvliet, in the direction ofBergen-op-Zoom
External links
- Complete track of the A12 on Autosnelwegen.net
- Media related to A12 (Belgium) at Wikimedia Commons