Nice new piece of motorway, hope the whole route from Eisenach to Kassel will be built sometimes. Haven't drove there yet, was nice to see how it looks, thanks for the video, greetings from a fellow roadtripper from Germany!
The main reasons for these extreme long construction times are legal actions from citizen initiatives and Nature conservation organizations and the german bureaucracy (in Germany you need an approval for almost everything). This is also the case for several railway construction projects here.
These explain the slow plan approval, but often the delays start mounting after construction already began. It's not uncommon for German construction projects to take twice as long as originally scheduled at the start of construction.
Muy lindo video amigos, muchas gracias. No puedo evitar ver su frustración por las demoras en las construcciones en Alemania y los entiendo. Pero si vinieran a Argentina, sencillamente entenderían que lo de allá es una maravilla (aún utilizando un 200% del tiempo proyectado). Por ejemplo hay una autopista de 117km que lleva 30 años construyéndose jajajaja. Saludos.
A finished A44 might take a little of the load off the "Polish corridor", i.e. the A2. Coming from Sweden, I am normally more interested in the north-south connections. It is a pity that the A14/A39 projects were not designed as an "X", it would have given more options. Also, an A21-A39 connection would have been nice, it is too often terrible to try to pass Hamburg. It seems strange that the end of this section goes north, even a little, NE, while it is just 12km away from its continuation at Kassel and I would expect the road to go south of Vollmarshausen, right? Why is this, is it due to the terrain? Just looking at the map, a continuation due west, between Vollmarshausen and Wellerode looks more logical, though I expect there are good reasons to do it the way they do.
As a norwegian i'm a bit impressed that the second longest road tunnel in germany is only 4,2 km. In Norway that tunnel wouldn't be among the top 50 longest road tunnels, but then again, Norway is a bit more hilly and mountainus then Germany i guess :)
