A58 motorway (Netherlands)

A58 motorway
Rijksweg 58
Motorways in the Netherlands with A58 bolt
Route information
Part of E 312
Maintained by Rijkswaterstaat[1]
Major junctions
East end:	E 312 / E 25 / A2 in Eindhoven
	A65 in Tilburg E 311 / A27 near Breda E 19 / A16 near Breda A17 in Roosendaal A4 in Bergen op Zoom A4 near Woensdrecht A256 in Goes
West end:	E 312 / N58 / N288 in Vlissingen
Location
Provinces:	North Brabant, Zeeland
Highway system
Roads in the Netherlands Motorways E-roads Provincial City routes ← N57 A59 →

A58 near Breda

The A58 motorway is a motorway in the Netherlands. It is approximately 145 kilometers in length. The A58 is located in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Zeeland.

The A58 connects North Brabant's three major cities Eindhoven, Tilburg and Breda with the cities Goes, Middelburg and Vlissingen in Zeeland.

History

With the reconstruction works of the Randweg Eindhoven, the beltway of the city, nearing completion, the A58 motorway has been shortened by a few kilometers. The road now only starts at the interchange Batadorp. The section between its former eastern terminus (interchange Ekkersrijt/John F. Kennedylaan) and the interchange Ekkersweijer has now become part of the A50, while the section between interchanges Ekkersweijer and Batadorp is now only a part of the A2, and is no longer shared with the A58.

Traffic jams

The motorway 58 is congested everyday, especially between Oirschot - Tilburg and between Roosendaal - Bergen Op Zoom.

In 2011, experiments with "snelheidsdekens" (lower speed limits) of 90 km/h (55 mph) or even just 70 km/h (45 mph) were set to reduce the amount of traffic jams. It had a counterproductive effect: more traffic jams occurred in January-March 2011.^[2]

In 2011, the BZW (Brabant-Zealandic Employers association) got involved with the widening of the roads, while companies located near the motorway complain about the national government's "neglecting and pointing too much to the Randstad". The target is to widen the motorway in Brabant everywhere to at least 2x3 lanes,^[3] around Tilburg to 4x2 (with local- express-)lanes and relocate the section through Roosendaal.^[4]

Route description

Speed limit

The speed limit on the eastern half is 120 km/h (75 mph), whereas the shared section with the A16, and in Zeeland, the speed limit is 130 km/h (80 mph).

Western terminus near Vlissingen

The A58 motorway section ends just east of the city of Vlissingen. From the intersection where the motorway ends, drivers can go straight ahead towards the N288 road, which brings them to the centre of the city or to a number of towns further to the west on the island. They can also turn left, which brings them to Vlissingen's harbor, from where boats depart towards England and to the town of Breskens, located in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. The latter road has been called 'N58', to create one on-going route number (58) between Brabant and the Vlissingen harbor.

European routes

Between interchange Batadorp, the future start of the A58, and the western end of the motorway near Vlissingen, the European route E312 follows the road. The shared section of the A58 and the A16 is also part of the European route E19.

Exit list

References

External links

Media related to Rijksweg 58 at Wikimedia Commons

Motorways in the Netherlands
A1 A2/N2 N3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 N11 A12 A13 N14 A15/A18 A16 A17 A20
A22 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31/N31 A32/N32 N33 A35 N36 A37 A38 A44/N44 A50 N57 A58/N58 A59/N59
N61 A65 A67 A73 A74 A76 A77 A79 N99 A200 N208 A256 A261 A270 A325 A326 A348