Editing Basel (section)

==== Border crossings ====
Basel is located at the meeting point of France, Germany, and Switzerland; because it sits on the Swiss national border and is beyond the [[Jura Mountains]], many within the [[Swiss military]] reportedly believe that the city is indefensible during wartime.<ref name="mcphee19831031">{{cite news | url=http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=16248&startpage=page0000103#folio=050 | title=La Place de la Concorde Suisse-I | magazine=The New Yorker | date=31 October 1983 | access-date=22 July 2013 | author=McPhee, John | pages=50 | archive-date=14 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714230210/http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=16248&startpage=page0000103#folio=050 | url-status=live }}</ref> It has numerous road and rail crossings between Switzerland and the other two countries. With Switzerland joining the [[Schengen Area]] on 12 December 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings. However, Switzerland did not join the [[European Union Customs Union]] (though it did join the [[EU Single Market]]) and customs checks are still conducted at or near the crossings.
[[File:Basel-blt-tram-10-stadler-882129.jpg|thumb|Tram in the city centre (Bankverein)]]

'''France-Switzerland''' (from east to west) 
* '''Road crossings''' (with French road name continuation)
** Kohlenstrasse (Avenue de Bâle, Huningue). This crossing replaces the former crossing Hüningerstrasse further east.
** Elsässerstrasse (Avenue de Bâle, Saint-Louis)
** Autobahn A3 ([[A35 autoroute]], Saint-Louis), crossing [[Mulhouse]], [[Colmar]] and [[Strasbourg]].
** [[EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg]] – pedestrian walkway between the French and Swiss sections on Level 3 (departures) of airport.
** Burgfelderstrasse (Rue du 1er Mars, Saint Louis)
* '''Railway crossing'''
** [[Basel SBB railway station]]

'''Germany-Switzerland''' (clockwise, from north to south)
* '''Road crossings''' (with German road name continuation)
** Hiltalingerstrasse (Zollstraße, [[Weil am Rhein]]). Tram 8 goes along this road to Weil am Rhein. The extension opened in 2014; it used to end before the border.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tram8.info|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110192710/http://tram8.info/|url-status=dead|title=Tram 8 construction information page|archivedate=10 January 2014}}</ref>
** Autobahn A2 ([[Bundesautobahn 5|Autobahn A5]], [[Weil am Rhein]])
** Freiburgerstrasse (Baslerstraße, [[Weil am Rhein]])
** Weilstrasse, [[Riehen]] (Haupstraße, [[Weil am Rhein]])
** Lörracherstrasse, [[Riehen]] (Baslerstraße, Stetten, [[Lörrach]])
** Inzlingerstrasse, [[Riehen]] (Riehenstraße, [[Inzlingen]])
** Grenzacherstrasse (Hörnle, [[Grenzach-Wyhlen]])
* '''Railway crossing'''
** Between Basel SBB and [[Basel Badischer Bahnhof]] – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to [[Deutsche Bundesbahn|DB]] and are classed as German customs territory. Immigration and customs checks are conducted at the platform exit tunnel for passengers leaving trains here.

Additionally there are many footpaths and cycle tracks crossing the border between Basel and Germany.