Freeway A4 was completely rebuild in the sixties using a new right-of-way. This picture from 1966 shows the construction of the new 8-lane bridge over the Haarlemmermeer-ringcanal. In the background the old 2-lane bridge and the old motorway are visible.

Part of the new A4 was the construction of Badhoevedorp interchange, the first dutch cloverleaf. This picture shows us the progression in constructionwork in 1964.

This picture of Badhoevedorp interchange was taken in 1966. The old A4 can be seen in the left-above corner of the picture.

A view on Badhoevedorp interchange in 1970. The new A4 had been opened in november 1966, and the cloverleaf became functional in august 1967, when freeway 6 (now A9) opened from Haarlem to Aalsmeer. The very wide median today is being used for a 4-track railroad. East of the new A4 (right side on the picture) the old A4 is visible. This road, still in it’s 1937 paving-conditions, became obsolete. Nothing happened to the road, and it just laid there for some 30 years becoming a technical monument of the past. Politics however like busses and buslanes more than old unused (but historically interesting) roads, so it was being reconstructed into a modern buslane around the year 2000.

Part of the new A4 was also the Schiphol-tunnel, which crosses the Buitenveldert landing strip of Schiphol airport. This picture was taken on the opening-day of the tunnel: September 7, 1966.

Old and new A4 near Schiphol junction, september 7, 1966. In the background the new A4, on the foreground the old road.

Just 5 months later in february 1967 not much is left of the old A4.

The old 4-lane Galecopperbridge of 1942 photographed in 1970. Construction has started on the southern part of the new 12-lane bridge.

The new Galecopperbrug in 1979 (watching from the other side).

Europalaan junction is being reconstructed in 1970.

The roundabout just left of the freeway was constructed in 1942, anticipating on a new urban area north of it (left in this picture), which wasn’t build until the sixties. In the meantime the roundabout became known as “The unborn child”, because it had no function. In this picture at last the connection to the Kanaleneiland-area had been made, but the roundabout would soon be demolished.

Lunetten interchange being constructed in 1972. It would last until 1986 before the A27 would be opened completely.

In the foreground is Houten junction, which ceased to exist in the early seventies.

Between the Galecopperbridge and Oudenrijn interchange reconstruction works included twining-works to enhance traffic-flow between the main lanes and parallel lanes of the A12 on the one hand and the different directions in Oudenrijn-interchange on the other hand.

Freeway A13 was long known as a killer-road. It didn’t have a median; just a simple line devided both driving-directions. In 1960 works had started to reconstruct this road into Holland’s first 6-lane freeway.

A gasoline-station in the midst of a junction, 1966. These locations later were branded as unsafe, and this station moved to a place further on the A13. Berkel/Zestienhoven, 1966.

Freeway A9 near the Velsertunnel in 1980.

Reconstruction of the Bodegraven-curve in the A12 in 1975.

In 1975 the city of The Hague built a new freeway through the newly build central-station area. The “Utrechtsebaan” became an extension of the A12 west of Voorburg.

Reconstruction of the A12 near Harmelen in 1979. A new 4-lane westbound carriageway was being build, making it possible to reconstruct the old freeway into a 3-lane eastbound carriageway.

Construction of Terbregseplein-interchange in 1971. The interchange of the A16 and A20 was partially opened in 1973.