View source for A50 motorway (Netherlands)

{{Short description|Motorway in the Netherlands}}
{{Infobox road
| country     = NLD
| type        = A
| route       = 50
| map         = Rijksweg50.svg
| map_notes   = Motorways in the Netherlands with A50 and N50 bolt
| e-road      = {{Jct|country=NLD|E|31|E|35}}
| maint       = [[Rijkswaterstaat]]<ref name="RWS">{{cite web|title=Wegbeheerders|url=http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/geotool/wegbeheerders.aspx?cookieload=true|publisher=Rijkswaterstaat|accessdate=14 December 2014}}</ref>
| direction_a = South
| terminus_a  = {{Jct|country=NLD|E|25|A|2}} in [[Eindhoven]]
| junction    = {{plainlist|
* {{Jct|country=NLD|A|59}} near [[Oss]]
* {{Jct|country=NLD|A|326}} near [[Wijchen]]
* {{Jct|country=NLD|E|31|A|73|N|322}} near [[Beuningen]]
* {{Jct|country=NLD|E|31|A|15}} near [[Elst, Gelderland|Elst]]
* {{Jct|country=NLD|A|12}} in [[Arnhem]]
* {{Jct|country=NLD|E|30|A|1}} in [[Apeldoorn]]
}}
| direction_b = North
| terminus_b  = {{Jct|country=NLD|E|232|A|28|N|50}} in [[Hattem]]
| previous_type = A
| previous_route = 44
| next_type = A
| next_route = 58
| provinces    = [[North Brabant]], [[Gelderland]]
| photo      =Hattem A50 exit Hattem seen from Hessenweg to the north 2.jpg|photo_alt=Exit Hattem
}}
'''A50''', the section of '''Rijksweg 50''' that is constructed as [[controlled-access highway]], is a north&ndash;south [[motorway]] in the [[Netherlands]], running from [[Eindhoven]] in the province of [[North Brabant]], northwards passing by the cities of [[Oss]], [[Nijmegen]], [[Arnhem]] and [[Apeldoorn]], to its northern terminus in the province of [[Gelderland]] near the city of [[Zwolle]].

The highway is maintained by [[Rijkswaterstaat]].<ref name="RWS"/>

==Route description==
It passes the cities of [[Eindhoven]], [[Oss]], [[Nijmegen]], [[Arnhem]], [[Apeldoorn]] and [[Zwolle]].

==History==
During the [[Second World War]] the Highway was known as '''Highway 69'''. Since 1969, it is known as N69 and has that name now only between the border of [[North Brabant]] and [[European route E34]].

The highway was an important and only avenue of advance during [[Operation Market Garden]], and after the fighting along its length between [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] and [[Wehrmacht]] forces it was named "'''Hell's Highway'''"<ref>p.87, Koskimaki</ref> so named because of the effective artillery fire directed at it by the German forces in the area.<ref name="p.125, Ambrose">p.125, Ambrose</ref> During the fighting some {{convert|16|km|mi}} of the highway south of Eindhoven was jammed with wrecks of vehicles being attacked by up to 200 [[Luftwaffe]] bombers<ref name="p.125, Ambrose"/> requiring bulldozers and blade-equipped tanks to roam the length, pushing them off the surface to keep traffic moving. The wrecks on the soft shoulders of the highway prevented its use by other vehicles,<ref name="p.125, Ambrose"/> in effect converting the highway into a narrow corridor, and slowing the movement on it to a crawl for the Allied drivers.
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==Exit list==
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|notes=Southern end of E&nbsp;31 concurrency
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{{Jctbridge|exit
|river=[[Waal (river)|Waal]]
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{{NLDint|exit
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|road={{Jct|country=NLD|N|50|E|232|A|28|dir1=north&ndash;west|location1=[[Kampen, Overijssel|Kampen]]|city2=Zwolle|city3=Wezep}}
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==See also==
*[[List of motorways in the Netherlands]]
*[[List of E-roads in the Netherlands]]
*{{portal-inline|Netherlands}}
*{{portal-inline|Roads}}

==References==
===Footnotes===
{{reflist}}

===Works cited===
* Koskimaki, George E., ''Hell's highway: chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September - November 1944'', Casemate, Havertown, 2003
* Ambrose, Stephen E., ''Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany'', Part One, Chapter 4, Touchstone, New York, 1997

==External links==
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{{Motorways in the Netherlands}}
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[[Category:Motorways in the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Motorways in Gelderland]]
[[Category:Motorways in North Brabant]]
[[Category:Transport in Eindhoven]]
[[Category:Transport in Oss]]