Ost Autobahn

Motorway A4
Motorway A4
Ost Autobahn A4
Route information
Length	66 km (41 mi)
Major junctions
From	Vienna Erdberg
	Prater Junction A 4 / A 23; Simmeringer Haide (B 228); Albern Junction A 4 / A 22 (planned); Schwechat Junction A 4 / S 1; Airport (B 9); Fischamend (B 9); Bruck an der Leitha-West (B10); Bruck an der Leitha-Ost (B211); Bruckneudorf Junction A 4 / A 6; Parndorf (B10); Neusiedl am See (B50); Gols/Weiden (B51); Mönchhof (B51); Nickelsdorf (B10)
To	M1 ; E60, Hungary
Location
Country	Austria
Regions	Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland
Highway system
	Highways of Austria; Autobahns; Expressways; State Roads;

The (Austrian) Ost Autobahn A4 or "Eastern Motorway" is part of the European route E60 and goes from Vienna to the town of Nickelsdorf, on the Hungarian border.

The road begins at the A23 at the Prater junction in Vienna, travels through Simmering, Schwechat, Vienna International Airport, Fischamend, Bruck an der Leitha, Parndorf, Weiden am See and Mönchhof to the border town of Nickelsdorf. Crossing the border into Hegyeshalom, the road becomes the Hungarian M1 motorway which then continues on to Budapest. The road is 66 km long.

During the overflow of asylum seekers traveling from Hungary during September 2015, the highway was closed intermittently preventing the traffic between Hungary and Austria, and it was reported that Austrian army was deployed on the border.^[1]

Future plans

There is a new junction planned at Albern, as part of the lengthening of the Donauuferautobahn A22, which in the future should be extended into a so-called Halbknoten or half-junction. This would mean, for instance, that it would only be possible to go from Schwechat onto the A22, meaning one would have to travel from the A22 to the A4, in the direction of Schwechat. In the future there are plans to connect the six-lane extension between the Schwechat junction and the airport.^{[clarification needed]}

The section from Vienna to Vienna International Airport will be called the Flughafenautobahn, or "Airport Motorway". As of 2014^[update], there are plans to widen the A4 from 2x2 to 2x3 lanes between Vienna International Airport and Fischamend at a cost of 32 million euro.^[2]

References

^ "Austria deploys army to boost refugee checks, Slovakia brings back border controls".
^ "Pressearchiv - asfinag.at". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

External links

Planungen vom Land Niederösterreich zum Ausbau der A4

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[1] "Austria deploys army to boost refugee checks, Slovakia brings back border controls".

[2] "Pressearchiv - asfinag.at". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

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v t e Autobahns and Schnellstraßen of Austria
	Autobahns	A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26
	Schnellstraßen	S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S10 S16 S18 S31 S33 S34 S35 S36 S37