Belgian highway A8
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The Belgian highway A8 (classified as a E429) is a highway which leaves the loop of skirting of Hall (N203a), city located at the south-west of Brussels.
The construction of this highway allowed the opening-up of the Western Hainaut by connecting it directly to the capital (Brussels), while concretizing the junction between the latter and the French metropolis of Lille.
The last exit is that of Blandain non-loin of the French border.
It in 2000, thanks to financial means is mobilized by the Finance company complementary to the Infrastructures (SOFICO), that the completion of A8 in Province of Hainaut, could be concluded.
It was necessary to build several important works to carry out the last section of 21 km, located in a rural landscape, between Ghislenghien and Hacquegnies, and which was to cross railway lines, the Dendre as well as a very dense network of local roadway systems. Among these works, let us quote the Tunnel of Rebaix and the Tunnel of the Wood of Houtaing (between Ath and Frasnes-lez-Anvaing).
Besides this last section is the subject of a taxation for the benefit of SOFICO, the company which built the highway and which is thus remunerated by the Walloon region according to the number of vehicles which forward there. Gantries of counting are installed there for this purpose.
Exchanger of Turned to the French border, the highway also has the European statute of E42.
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