The A12 motorway is a motorway in the Netherlands. The road connects the city of The Hague, with the German border, near Zevenaar, and the German Autobahn BAB 3. On its way, it crosses three Dutch provinces: South Holland, Utrecht, and Gelderland.
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The A12 motorway runs along with parts of three major European routes:
The section of the A12 road within the city of The Hague (near exits 1, 2 and 3) is actually not a motorway, but a highway. This part of the road, known as the Utrechtsebaan, is too narrow to meet the Dutch requirements for a motorway (for example, it does not have a shoulder), and is therefore a highway with a maximum speed of 70 km/h.
To avoid local traffic from using this heavily congested part of the road, exits 2 through 4 are built as incomplete exits. These exits only feature westbound exits and eastbound entrances, so they can only be used by interlocal traffic. Local traffic is therefore forced to make use of the available local roads.
In 2008, a government programme on route branding, under an umbrella project in urban planning, put stickers on all streetlights of the A12, citing efforts to give it a "route 66-like" allure. This plan, dubbed the "regenboogroute" (rainbow route), received news coverage because of its alleged trivial results (stickers on streetlights) and high costs (€120 000).[1]
Province | Municipality | Km. | # | Name | Roads | Notes |
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South Holland | The Hague | 1 | 1 | Den Haag-Malieveld | N44 | Terminus of A12 at the junction with N44 |
2 | 2 | Den Haag-Centrum | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
3 | 3 | Den Haag-Bezuidenhout | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
Leidschendam-Voorburg | 5 | 4 | Voorburg | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
6 | Interchange Prins Clausplein | A4 | ||||
Pijnacker-Nootdorp | 7 | 5 | Nootdorp | |||
Zoetermeer | 13 | 6 | Zoetermeer-Centrum | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
16 | 7 | Zoetermeer | ||||
Lansingerland | 18 | 8 | Bleiswijk | N209 | ||
Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle | 23 | 9 | Zevenhuizen | N219 | ||
Gouda | 27 | Interchange Gouwe | A20 | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
29 | 11 | Gouda | N207 | |||
Reeuwijk | 33 | 12 | Reeuwijk | to N11 | ||
Bodegraven | 35 | 12a | Bodegraven | N11 | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
39 | 13 | Nieuwerbrug | ||||
Utrecht | Woerden | 46 | 14 | Woerden | N201 | |
51 | 14a | Harmelen | ||||
Utrecht | 54 | 15 | De Meern | N198, N228 | ||
57 | Interchange Oudenrijn | A2 | ||||
Nieuwegein | 59 | 16 | Nieuwegein | |||
Utrecht | 60 | 17 | Utrecht-Kanaleneiland | |||
61 | 18 | Utrecht-Hoograven | ||||
62 | Interchange Lunetten | A27 | ||||
Bunnik | 68 | 19 | Bunnik | N229 | ||
Utrechtse Heuvelrug | 71 | 20 | Driebergen | N225 | ||
77 | 21 | Maarn | N227 | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
81 | 22 | Maarsbergen | N226 | |||
Veenendaal | 92 | 23 | Veenendaal -West | |||
104 | 23a | Veenendaal | N233 | |||
Gelderland | Ede | 107 | Interchange Maanderbroek | A30 | ||
Wageningen | 109 | 24 | Wageningen | |||
Renkum | 120 | 25 | Oosterbeek | |||
121 | Interchange Grijsoord | A50 | ||||
Arnhem | 128 | Interchange Waterberg | A50 | |||
129 | 26 | Arnhem-Noord | ||||
134 | Interchange Velperbroek | A348, N325 | ||||
Westervoort | 136 | 27 | Westervoort | N338 | ||
Duiven | 138 | 28 | Duiven | |||
Zevenaar | 143 | 29 | Zevenaar | N336 | ||
Montferland | 147 | Interchange Oud-Dijk | A18 | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
149 | 30 | Beek | ||||
Border with Germany; this road continues as the German A3. |
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