They worked for two years and the result was nothing short of spectacular. A two-kilometre-long strip of asphalt rose from the ground between the fields, a railway tunnel and two bridges. But cars never drove over it. When the Ministry of Public Works was federalized in 1989, the Walloon Region promptly canceled the faster connection between Ronse and the A8.
The four-lane road was, therefore, never completed or connected to the existing N60 (in most places, a two-lane road without a central reservation).
Viaducts and railway tunnel
The useless road is on top of two purpose-built viaducts.