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Transportation
By air
The Hamburg Airport is the international airport of the city of Frankfurt and at the same time the fifth biggest and oldest airport of Germany (opening in 1912). Since the induction of the new terminal in 2005 the airport belongs to the most modern ones in Europe. It lies about 8,5 km outside of the city centre and is easily reachable by car, S-Bahn and busses. Bus 110 is the so-called Airport-Express which operates between Hamburg Central Station and the airport and takes approximately 35 minutes. The tickets for the Airport Express aren’t subject to the rates of the HVV. The S-Bahn will be initiated in December 2008 and will only have a travelling time of 23 minutes and a departure from Terminal 1 every ten minutes.
The Hamburg Airport handles about 15 - 16 Million passengers per year and works with about 70 airlines which fly to about 120 destinations, amongst them also flights to Dubai, New York and Toronto. The biggest airlines are Lufthansa, Air Berlin, Hapagfly, Condor, dba, British Airways and HLX.
Hamburg is the biggest railway junction in the north of Europe. Trains from many parts of Europe run together at the main Central Station “Hauptbahnhof Sud (Hbf)” of the city. It is the starting point of many ICE lines and international trains of which most start at the train station Hamburg-Altona. There are the following other long distance railway stations: Hamburg-Dammtor, Hamburg-Harburg and Hamburg-Bergedorf. Besides many regional lines that cover the surrounding areas there are regional express lines, privately run metronome trains and the North and Baltic Sea train lines in the direction of Elmshorn- Westerland (Sylt).
Hamburg has a well organised network of motorways and federal highways:
A 1: Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck – Oldenburg/Holst
A 7: Kempten – Ulm – Würzburg – Fulda – Kassel – Hannover – Hamburg (New Elbtunnel) – Flensburg
A 23: Hamburg – Heide
A 24: Hamburg – Berlin
A 25: Hamburg – Geesthacht
There are shorter parts of the motorways that are marked with federal highway 252, 253 and 255. These only cover a couple of kilometres. The following federal highways lead into the city centre of Hamburg where the whole traffic runs together: B 4, B 5, B 73, B 75, B 207, B 431, B 432, B 433, B 434, B 435 and B 447. That is why there are a lot of traffic jams to be expected especially during peak hours. Three ring roads which are semi-circular around the inner part of the city (Ring 1), the outer part (Ring 2) and the north-western suburbs (Ring3) try to relieve the traffic in Hamburg’s city centre.
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