Editing Dortmund (section)

===Road transport===
[[File:Schnettkerbruecke West.jpg|thumb|The Ruhrschnellweg Section East Dortmund]]
Dortmund also serves as a major European and German crossroads for the Autobahnsystem. The [[Bundesautobahn 40|Ruhrschnellweg]] follows old Hanseatic trade routes to connect the city with the other metropolises of the [[Ruhr Area]]. It crosses the [[Netherlands|Dutch]]-German border as a continuation of the Dutch [[A67 motorway (Netherlands)|A67]] and crosses the [[Rhine]], leads through the [[Ruhr valley]] toward [[Bochum]], becoming B&nbsp;1 ([[Bundesstraße 1|Bundesstraße&nbsp;1]]) at the Kreuz Dortmund West and eventually merging into the A&nbsp;44 near [[Holzwickede]]. It has officially been named Ruhrschnellweg (Ruhr Fast Way), but locals usually call it Ruhrschleichweg (Ruhr Crawling Way) or "the Ruhr area's longest parking lot". According to ''Der Spiegel'', it is the most congested motorway in Germany.

Connections to more distant parts of Germany are maintained by Autobahn routes [[Bundesautobahn 1|A1]] and [[Bundesautobahn 2|A2]], which traverse the north and east city limits and meet at the [[Kamener Kreuz]] interchange north-east of Dortmund.
In combination with the Autobahn [[Bundesautobahn 45|A45]] to the west these form the [[Dortmund Beltway]] (''Dortmunder Autobahnring'').