is an
autobahn in southwestern
Germany. It connects the
Taunus to
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
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, passing close to
Frankfurt am Main. The first part of the autobahn between
Wiesbaden and the
Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt
The Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt is a cloverleaf interchange in Frankfurt. Here, the Bundesautobahn 5 ( Hattenbacher Dreieck - Frankfurt am Main - Basel) and the Bundesautobahn 66 (Wiesbaden - Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is ...
, was opened as early as 1934, then called the ''Rhein-Main-Schnellweg''. It became an autobahn in 1965.
The autobahn is incomplete; there still is a gap within
Frankfurt city borders. A
tunnel was proposed as a solution; however, this has not been implemented because of the high cost of construction. A new section of roadway to close a second gap southwest of Fulda was opened to traffic on 13 September 2014.
The section includes a
cut-and-cover tunnel and replaces a diversion which saw traffic routed onto the B 40 for approximately 9 kilometers before rejoining the A 66 just prior to the junction with the A 7; the new segment cost 154 million euros. A portion of the
Kinzig Valley Railway line was also rerouted along the new autobahn segment, which required an additional 60 million euros.
Near
Frankfurt-Höchst, the highway is one of the busiest in Germany with an average of more than 130,000 vehicles per day.
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Erlensee
Erlensee is a town in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated on the river Kinzig, 5 km northeast of Hanau. It was formed in 1970 by the merger, in 1970, of the towns of Langendiebach and Rückingen. The name deduces fro ...
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External links
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A066
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