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rmans reduce utobahn plans
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R THE first time since the r West Germany is slowing wn the growth of its Otobahn-building protamme and projects to build ti extra 6,100-kilometres have een axed. !Under pressure by the enronmental lobby, political eaders in Bonn last week deided to restrict autobahn Onstruction in the 1980s to ly 3000 extra kilometres.
This will give the country a ,500-kilometres autobahn twork — more than equate for the traffic density pected in 1990, says the deral Transport Ministry in nn.
The main projects which ve been cancelled are: A 207-kilometres link from e Dutch frontier along the North Sea, serving Hamburg, Bremen and the SchleswigHolstein area. Cost: £550 million.
* A £525 million project between Bremen and Giessen (264 kilometres).
* A six-lane super-highway through the middle of the Black Forest, connecting Freiburg and Donaueschingen. Cost: E190 million.
Instead of building new motorways, money will be spent on widening some existing four-lane motorways to six-lanes and improving the Bundestrassen (A-roads).
A spokesman for the Transport Ministry told Commercial Motor: "We already have the most extensive network of motorways in Europe."