In fewer than ten years, ten people have died in accidents on the 31.5km-stretch of the N7, 34 people were seriously injured and another 103 suffered mild injuries, the government said in a press release on 5 February.

The upgrade will widen lanes and add a hard shoulder. It will also offer more opportunities to safely overtake slow vehicles by alternating 2 + 1 lanes (two lanes in one direction and one lane in the other) every 1.2 kilometres.

Other works include improvements to intersections and limiting speed to 90km/h along the entire track, rather than switching between 70km/h and 110km/h as is currently the case.

The €246.71m road works also include a cycling path between Hoscheid and Hoscheid-Dickt. Construction should begin next year and take around four years for the first section between Fridhaff and Hoscheid-Dickt.

The Hosingen-Marnach and Heinerscheid-Weiswampach stretches will follow.

A bypass around Hosingen also forms part of the plans and comes at an additional cost of €154.35m to relieve the Hosingen town centre of traffic.