The Bundesstraße 2R is a German federal highway (''German:'' Bundesstraße) in
Bavaria
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. It forms a ring road within the city of
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
in Bavaria, is long, and suffers the worst traffic-jams in the country.
It is called the "Middle Ring" (''German:'' Mittlerer Ring) because of its concentric position between the
Altstadtring and the incomplete
Outer Ring, as well as being within the
Autobahnring.
Traffic importance
The Middle Ring is the backbone of all traffic in Munich, since it offers the fastest connection to all major traffic axes. It replaced all the Bundesstraßen that ran through the city center, even
Bundesstraße 2, after which it is named (the R stands for Ring). Within the Middle Ring, there are only municipal streets.
Of the eight Autobahns that go to Munich, six of them have access to the Middle Ring. The
A8 to Salzburg), the
A9 (to
Nuremberg
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and
Berlin
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) and the
A96 (towards
Lindau
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) all have direct access to the Middle Ring. The
A94 is connected to the Ring via a short section of Einsteinstraße, but an exit from the A94 goes directly into the northbound Richard-Strauss-Tunnel on the Middle Ring. The
A95 is connected to the Middle Ring by the
B2, and the
A995 is connected via the
B13. However, both Bundesstraßen are built to Autobahn standards and signed as such. Only the
A8 towards
Stuttgart
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has a longer connection to the Middle Ring, a 7 km-long section of the Verdistraße and
Arnulfstraße
The Arnulfstraße is a 3.8 km long urban street in Munich. It leads from the Bahnhofplatz in the Ludwigsvorstadt through the Maxvorstadt (north of the railway) west to Romanplatz in Neuhausen. Over the Hackerbrücke, there is a connection to t ...
. The
A92 ends at the
Autobahnring, but is connected to the Middle Ring via the A9.
The
E54 runs along the southwest section of the Middle Ring between the A96 and the A995. This section of the route is also heavily used by long-distance traffic, because neither the A99 motorway ring nor the originally planned Outer Ring have been completed.
References
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