The A2 is considered the most important north-south connection in the Netherlands. The national highway has a length of 207.8 km.
The motorway is characterised by various parallel lane systems. These systems separate through traffic (on the middle lanes) from local traffic, so that fewer weaving movements are made. There are four lanes at Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven and Maastricht. At Eindhoven the leftmost and rightmost lanes have the number N2. At Utrecht and 's-Hertogenbosch all lanes are part of the A2. A fourth parallel lane system was opened near Maastricht (Koning Willem-Alexander Tunnel) on 16 December 2016.
At the southern end of the Eindhoven ring road is the Leenderheide interchange. Coming from the direction of Weert, there were often traffic jams in the rush hour before the traffic lights at the intersection that was part of this junction. The junction was reconstructed and an extra fly-over was added to reduce the traffic jams at this junction. At Maastricht the A2 was interrupted for 2 kilometres by a motorway (with traffic lights) and was then called the N2. The N2 ran straight through Maastricht.
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