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The
Axenstrasse is a middle section between the A4 motorway and the A2 motorway, and a part of the European route E41 in a north-south direction, but still on a two-lane road with oncoming traffic. Between Brunnen and Flüelen, there are no major junctions, although about halfway through, just south
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323:(1804–1869) presented plans for three different roads on different levels, which were all approved by the Parliament. After further discussions on the road to be built between the two cantons, the choice fell on the current one which was completed in 1865. The road costs were 842,000
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Urnersee. The route, especially in the part south of Sisikon, involves many open passages with rock galleries and numerous openings in the west tunnel walls viewing Urnersee as a result of the tunnel blasting through the
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of the border between the cantons of Uri and Schwyz, there is one small settlement, Sisikon. At the southern end of the route, there is a connection to the
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