The Mühlkreis Autobahn (A7) is an

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(

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) in the

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n state of

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. It runs from the

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and the city of

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to the

Mühlviertel The Mühlviertel () is an Austrian region belonging to the state of Upper Austria: it is one of four "quarters" of Upper Austria, the others being Hausruckviertel, Traunviertel, and Innviertel. It is named after the three rivers ', ', and '. ...

in the north, where it ends near the small municipality of

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Construction started in the early 1960s, however the plans of a motorway connecting Linz with

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were never carried out and in 1982 the extension finally discontinued. Due to the increasing traffic volume after the fall of the Iron Curtain, a continuation will be provided by the Mühlviertler Schnellstraße expressway to Leopoldschlag at the Czech border, which was expected to open in 2015, but as of 2022, nothing has come of it.

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