Originally Posted by
lancebanyon
I also drove to Munich recently and passed through the 40 km construction zone on the autobahn from Stuttgart.
The A8 between Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich needs and gets a major upgrade and the work isn't very easy. Right now long parts of the A8 have only two lanes and not even a break down lane.
Originally Posted by
lancebanyon
This sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Maybe the economic crisis has slowed work on these projects also.
Actually the economic crisis will cause more infrastructure projects because of all the money the governments are investing.
In general highway construction in Germany takes long because the highways have to handle a lot of traffic and need a really good foundation in the ground to last several years. For example the US interstates have much thiner foundation and thiner surface and can be built much faster.