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without consideration for their condition. This leads to a wide range of road types falling within this category. On the one hand, there are inter-city roads which have been modernised to a good quality standard. On the other hand, due to the austere design of the country road network in the GDR
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and their cross-section is generally smaller. In individual cases, however, the standard of construction may vary depending on when it was built and its importance as a route. However, Landesstraßen can be built as limited-access dual carriageways in densely populated areas.
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are, however, intended as links between cities (major centres) and radiate from them. It is not usually possible to have concentric roads, which link the satellite towns with one another, designated as
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A white number on a blue square sign identified the more common type that are at the same time priority roads (Vorrangstraße). Their vehicle users had the right of way already by the blue sign.
333:(e. g. occasionally one of two parallel roads or, where they were of low traffic importance, the links between them were simply allowed to fall into disrepair) there are today in the
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indicate a location post within a town or village and may be displayed in places other than on a white post. By the end of 2008, almost all the 8,000 kilometre posts on Lower Saxony's
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Standard cross-section 9.5 with a road width of 6.5 m. Typical standard cross-section with a permitted maximum loading of 15,000 vehs/day (of which 300 lorries/day).
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federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads that cross the boundary of a rural or urban district (
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or direction of signage. It runs in the example from right to left and indicates in which direction the road kilometres are counted.
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or district road. The classification of a road as a
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