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TV report from 1957 about federal roads and motorways that can no longer cope with the ever-increasing traffic. Narrow streets and narrow roads through towns hinder traffic. Images from America show how traffic problems were solved there. Insight into the methods of road construction. 03:46 Expansion plan for federal highways and the closing of gaps in various motorways. The problems that have arisen because road construction has not kept pace with motorization for decades are addressed. The financing is questionable. Comparison with other countries. 07:32 Overloaded roads, repairs, roads that are too narrow and the reasons for this 11:14 Railway crossings that hold up traffic, with barriers or only with a St. Andrew's cross, but sometimes also without barriers or signs, confusing hilltops. 15:35 Construction and maintenance of roads, visits to the construction sites of the concrete and bitumen tracks, bridge construction. +++ 20:10 From here on, the sound quality is unfortunately very poor, which is due to the old magnetic tapes. *** 32:00 How is the motor vehicle tax spent? The Federal Ministry of Finance spends more than a billion marks in revenue from motor traffic on things other than traffic. A documentary by Hessischer Rundfunk from 1957 Subscribe to German television history on YouTube: / @deutschefernsehgeschichte