A2 & A3 - Basel, Switzerland, Ft. Astey Highways

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[@kennethsimmons2003]

Great video. Switzerland has some amazing highway engineering.

[@FreewayFranks]

Thanks Kenneth ! They really do !

[@gstv612]

They have money xdd

[@tomsmith5584]

Those are some crazy highways. No breakdown lanes, lots of sharp turns, and exits and entrances from both sides with no deceleration and acceleration lanes. Traffic must be insane during rush hour.

[@tigerwesti1]

Typical layout for highways in dense urban areas, I think.

[@FreewayFranks]

Yeah nothing surprising there IMO.

[@FreewayFranks]

I believe they did what they could to squeeze that highway through the city. You can't take as much space as rural highways in dense urban areas like that.

[@Tribeca40]

Looks a lot like many a New York City highway. Not much of an acceleration/deceleration lane..

[@ilregulator]

I live there and its really the best they could do. During rush hour (weekday evenings between 4.30 and 6.30 it can get really tight, but never as bad as US traffic. They are planning to upgrade it to an 8-lane highway - 4 lanes each directions - (from the start of the video until the intersection Basel City 2:02) They're also talking about building a tunnel starting around the beginning of the video until after the intersection at 2:45 connecting to Germany since this is one of Europe's main north-south-routes so the transit traffic doesn't have to use the city highway.

[@EmilSchaller-ks7ge]

Die Schweiz 🇨🇭das schönste Land der Welt 💙👍

[@tigerwesti1]

Really awesome video. Very interesting and varying scenery. Great job with the signs and good choice of music.

[@FreewayFranks]

Thank you very much. It was a real pleasure to make this one... took me a while to find the perfect song :)

[@RayMullins]

Cool! The one city I’ve been in Switzerland. Because of the annual fee, I drove in via St.-Louis, but I got on A2 at the last entrance. This was back in 2003, before CH joined Schengen, but on a Sunday late afternoon at 1700 there was no one at the border, just some 5km limit signs, plus some cones laid out in a waving manner. Trivia on Basel-Bad Bhf: the platforms and the surrounding area are an exclave of Germany.

[@FreewayFranks]

Wow you got some nice memories there I see :) Planning a come back ?

[@ilregulator]

Comment from a local: The Bad. Bhf is not technically an exclave, the land it's build on is still Switzerland, but the property belongs to and is governed by Germany. There's a passport control (though not very active) before accessing the platforms and the german law applies. It's not an exclave as in, there's a border around it. As an example: Some parts of the platforms which belong to Germany (just the property not the land it's built on) are on a bridge that runs over the street and tram. If it was an exclave, these parts of the street would also belong to Germany, since borders only run vertically. It is a special situation though and is only possible because the countries in Europe have very good relations and both belong to the Schengen-Area. Plus: It wouldn't be an exclave after all, because the train-tracks and the surroundings of them all the way to official Germany belong to the German State as well. But still not the land they are built on. If the tracks and/or the trainstation were to be removed one day, the land they were built on would not stay a part of Germany.

[@canadiandude24]

I love Switzerland! Amazing highway!

[@FreewayFranks]

Europeans are amazing in roads engineering... I wish Canada make more tunnels...here, they rather prefer to cut mountains in two :P

[@class387productions3]

Freeway Franks lamppost

[@MrSniperFromMars]

Cool motorway ride! That’s a very nice freeway for a city of 850k.

[@FreewayFranks]

Absolutely! What I find special with this place, is their metro area is extending in 3 different countries! Thanks for watching!

[@TransCanadaPhil]

Highway engineering at it's finest! Thanks Francis

[@FreewayFranks]

Europeans are so good at this. I think you have probably noticed that aswell when you visited the UK !

[@SubdivisionAuto]

Very cool! I love the look of your driving time lapses. What is your setup to get them that smooth, and with enough motion blur? I just have a gopro on my car but I dont like how there is no motion blur. Also you have almost no bumps. Would love to learn!

[@FreewayFranks]

Hey thanks! Most of my videos are filmed by me except this one. It was made by Astey Highways but he uses the same setup as me : We both have a mini mount on the dashboard (Look at delkin fatgecko on the internet for that), that is fixed on the windshield itself inside of the car, so it's nice and steady. Second, we both have good camcorders. Mine has the option ''steadyshot'' that is making a huge difference than without it. And finally, I am using Sony vegas to work on my videos, there is a motion blur option. I hope that will answer your questions.

[@SubdivisionAuto]

Freeway Franks Sure does thanks for the pro tips!

[@FreewayFranks]

My pleasure!

[@dotdriveontransportation1687]

I have personally been to Switzerland and they have some pretty scenic routes

[@FreewayFranks]

I have no doubt it's true, their landscapes are terrific! Which parts of Switzerland have you visited?

[@dotdriveontransportation1687]

Geneva and Lausanne

[@dotdriveontransportation1687]

@@FreewayFranks Geneva and Lausanne. I also went to France and Drove into Italy toward Nice

[@drewconway7135]

Very lovely! Is this a toll freeway? Too bad it didn’t carry over the French border-I’d have been interested to see the difference between the Swiss side and the French side. Also, is Basel francophone? I would think it would be if it’s near France, like Geneva, but a lot of the place names look Germanic.

[@FreewayFranks]

Thank you Drew ! I don't know if it's a toll freeway but it looks very smooth ! Yeah I know... but Switzerland is not part of the European Union, so, when Astey arrived near the French border, he probably had to cut the video at the custom border. I don't think Basel is Francophone because it's officially part of German Switzerland, but I would not be surprised if they had a large Francophone minority !

[@alexanderivkin7086]

@@FreewayFranks It's a fake border region, because people there in all three countries speak the same dialect of German.

[@FreewayFranks]

@@alexanderivkin7086 Thank you!

[@thatswiss1385]

1:32 and Roche even want to build a second one, which should be even a bit bigger!😉

[@FreewayFranks]

Wow! Really? That's incredible. What height ?

[@thatswiss1385]

@@FreewayFranks here the Wikipedia side, but it's in german de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche-Turm_(Bau_2) Height 205m

[@FreewayFranks]

Thank you my friend and thanks for watching.

[@Matz32]

Nice ride

[@FreewayFranks]

Thanks!

[@EpicThe112]

0:40-2:00 the motorway actually follows a Swiss Federal Railway rail line Basel to Olten (Milan via Bern) or Zurich (Milan via Zug & Gotthard Base Tunnel) to which the A2 (Frankfurt Mannheim Basel) A3 (Paris Strasbourg Basel Motorway) goes under

[@FreewayFranks]

Thanks for the informations!

[@EpicThe112]

Freeway Franks You're welcome and in Candian French and Swiss French Swiss Federal Railways is called CFF. There is a smiliarity between your Quebec French and Swiss French is the time of meals due to metropolitan French petit Dejuner being not used also shared with Belgian French.

[@asteyhighways]

Belle realisation! Je vais d'ailleurs y repasser dans une semaine!

[@HWTra]

Pourquoi vous ne faites plus de vidéos ?

[@FreewayFranks]

Merci encore à toi Astey, ça été un réel plaisir de produire cette vidéo ! Tu peux toujours faire un Preview sur ta chaîne si tu le désires! Au fait, as tu passé de belles vacances ?

[@asteyhighways]

Belles vacances oui au mois d'Aout! Depuis la reprise ca passe vite, mais oui je vais te mettre en place un preview!

[@asteyhighways]

Vraiment plus de temps nécessaire pour faire des vidéos de qualité, ainsi qu'organiser des roads trip ou détours nécessaires aux prises de vues.

[@FreewayFranks]

Super! Vous avez eu du beau temps au moins? Merci pour le Preview! Il me reste aussi la 2e partie de l'A12 à faire... ça s'enviens dans les prochaines semaines!

[@FreewayAllan]

Dans 3:25 en dirait la limitation de vitesse comme la France! (MÊME CARACTÈRE)

[@FreewayFranks]

Oui tu as raison!

[@ulissessouza3288]

0:34 "Dinosaurier auf der Autobahn" Giuseppe Reichmuth

[@FreewayFranks]

Wie meinst du das? Ein Dinosaurier?

[@ulissessouza3288]

@@FreewayFranks The landscape in your video is the same as in the painting "Dinosaurier auf der Autobahn" - Giuseppe Reichmuth. The same Signposts,and more others details

[@FreewayFranks]

@@ulissessouza3288 Ah! I did not know that. I was a bit confused. :)

[@vintagecameras9623]

Switzerland

[@FreewayFranks]

Yes it is.

[@ilregulator]

Didn't see the sign at 0:38 ? its 120

[@FreewayFranks]

really? I swear I saw 100...

[@domeniquekee7876]

Verkeer richting Stuttgart moet ook links…….Parijs moet ook rechts