E19 was altijd bedoeld om de R0 te volgen. Elke snelweg heeft trouwens een eigen Wikipedia pagina.
Arguably they do not end but start in Brussels.
That’s the E19 at intersection with the R0 in Machelen. Basically, most motorways coming in Brussels stop at the Ring (that’s the E40, E19, the A201 and the A12), or rather merge with it while circumventing the region.
But that’s not entirely accurate. The E40 from Calais merges with the R0 but actually, starting in Jabbeke (W-Vl) it’s the alternate name of the A10 which continues a bit beyond the R0 to become the R20 (which starting in Ganschoren, is just a series of boulevards). The A12 does the same and become the R21 just North of the Royal Greenhouses.
The E40 from Kazakhstan does something a little weirder. It technically merges with the R0 but also continues towards Brussels. It sorts of branches with both branches being called E40. The inward branch goes on until ending at its intersection with the R21 in Diamant.
The A201 starts starts in Brussels airport and stops 4.2km further at NATO HQ where it becomes the N22. Not sure I understand this one.
And finally, the E411 also goes deeper in the capital and stops at Beaulieu where it merges with the N210. It’s worth noting two things: first, that locations is also the location of Delta hospital and second, the N210 runs the distance between Beaulieu and Delta to connect with the N206 after having run less than 500m.
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So what of the E19 from Amsterdam (which is the A1 from the border to Brussels)? Well, it does indeed only merge with the R0. Unlike the others, it doesn’t do anything else and ceases to exist beyond that point. So what if you want to get into Brussels and would rather avoid the R0? Well, in that case, you need to leave the E19 at exit 12 (the penultimate one) and take the N21 which goes straight through Haren and Evere, intersecting the R22 before ending with at the R21 in Schaerbeek. Yes Brussels has 4 Rxx roads. Only two of those (R0 and R20) actually make a Ring around the centre.
Because Belgium bro
What would you want them to do, just have a highway straight through Brussels?
It was in fact ment to go all the way to the north trainstation where it would meet the E40 from calais in a gaint interchange like you would see in the US and then go on and add back somewhere near Anderlecht to the outer ring, you can still see this on google maps where in there is also room made for an large interchange that now stops. Bassicly the plans were never fully constructed, leaving ded interchanges like in you photo, or ded end highways becoming auto boulevoirs and join the inner ring.
Oh and also that is partially why the whole northen Brussels disctrict where the train station is, is just mostly ded offices. They demolished the whole neighbourhood for a new office skyscraper district with good car connections due to that monster interchange that was never build there. When the plans failled it stayed mostly empty upto the 90 when it was finally fully developed. It’s still a massive scar in the Brussels landscape an city.
So this is why
Your phote is much more than the eye can see.
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E19 was altijd bedoeld om de R0 te volgen. Elke snelweg heeft trouwens een eigen Wikipedia pagina.
Arguably they do not end but start in Brussels.
That’s the E19 at intersection with the R0 in Machelen. Basically, most motorways coming in Brussels stop at the Ring (that’s the E40, E19, the A201 and the A12), or rather merge with it while circumventing the region.
But that’s not entirely accurate. The E40 from Calais merges with the R0 but actually, starting in Jabbeke (W-Vl) it’s the alternate name of the A10 which continues a bit beyond the R0 to become the R20 (which starting in Ganschoren, is just a series of boulevards). The A12 does the same and become the R21 just North of the Royal Greenhouses.
The E40 from Kazakhstan does something a little weirder. It technically merges with the R0 but also continues towards Brussels. It sorts of branches with both branches being called E40. The inward branch goes on until ending at its intersection with the R21 in Diamant.
The A201 starts starts in Brussels airport and stops 4.2km further at NATO HQ where it becomes the N22. Not sure I understand this one.
And finally, the E411 also goes deeper in the capital and stops at Beaulieu where it merges with the N210. It’s worth noting two things: first, that locations is also the location of Delta hospital and second, the N210 runs the distance between Beaulieu and Delta to connect with the N206 after having run less than 500m.
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So what of the E19 from Amsterdam (which is the A1 from the border to Brussels)? Well, it does indeed only merge with the R0. Unlike the others, it doesn’t do anything else and ceases to exist beyond that point. So what if you want to get into Brussels and would rather avoid the R0? Well, in that case, you need to leave the E19 at exit 12 (the penultimate one) and take the N21 which goes straight through Haren and Evere, intersecting the R22 before ending with at the R21 in Schaerbeek. Yes Brussels has 4 Rxx roads. Only two of those (R0 and R20) actually make a Ring around the centre.
Because Belgium bro
What would you want them to do, just have a highway straight through Brussels?
It was in fact ment to go all the way to the north trainstation where it would meet the E40 from calais in a gaint interchange like you would see in the US and then go on and add back somewhere near Anderlecht to the outer ring, you can still see this on google maps where in there is also room made for an large interchange that now stops. Bassicly the plans were never fully constructed, leaving ded interchanges like in you photo, or ded end highways becoming auto boulevoirs and join the inner ring.
Oh and also that is partially why the whole northen Brussels disctrict where the train station is, is just mostly ded offices. They demolished the whole neighbourhood for a new office skyscraper district with good car connections due to that monster interchange that was never build there. When the plans failled it stayed mostly empty upto the 90 when it was finally fully developed. It’s still a massive scar in the Brussels landscape an city.
So this is why
Your phote is much more than the eye can see.