The Federal motorway 40 (BAB 40 or A 40), is a federal trunk road that runs from the federal border to the Netherlands at Venlo above Duisburg and eat to Dortmund leads. She is known as Ruhr expressway, although fast traffic is rarely possible on it (hence the name Ruhrschleichweg).
The total length of the motorway, insofar as it is in operation, is 95.4 km. After completion of the motorway, the total length should be 108.4 km. The further construction (on the route of Buundesstraße 1) is planned to the Dortmund / Unna junction, where the east branch of the Federal motorway 46 that already connects up kassel is continuously in operation.
background
The freeway used to be part of the west as part of the Federal motorway 2 and designated as BAB 430 in the Ruhr area. She has been wearing the number 40 since 1992.
Regions
Lower Rhine (region), Ruhr area
traffic
With around 100,000 vehicles a day, the autobahn is one of the busiest routes, which is why frequent traffic jams between Mülheim and Dortmund!
Route description
The route is described from west to east (direction of travel east = 
). A detailed list of junction points, parking spaces and other tourist facilities can be found here.
- (1) Border with the Netherlands (connection to Dutch
) - (2)
Straelen
- (6) Dungeons
- (8)
cross Moers
- (10) Duisburg-Rheinhausen
- (13) cross Duisburg
- (14) Kaiserberg cross
- (16) Mülheim-Styrum
- (19) Mülheim-Be called
- (25) triangle eat-East
- (30) Bochum-Wattenscheid
- (32) triangle Bochum-West
- (33) Bochum-Hammer
- (38) Cross Bochum
- (40) Dortmund-Lütgendortmund
- (42) cross Dortmund-West
- [44) Dortmund-Barop, transition to the Direction Kreuz Dortmund / Unna
security
trips
- Kempen
- Port of Duisburg-Ruhrort
- Oberhausen with CentrO and gasometer
- eat
- Zollverein colliery
- Dortmund
