The site visitors jams that had been feared prematurely at the beginning of the Whitsun weekend have change into a actuality on Austria’s transit routes. Probably the most huge site visitors congestion was on the A10 Tauern Autobahn in Salzburg, the place the site visitors jam in entrance of the tunnel development website close to Golling grew to as much as 28 kilometers, which meant a delay of as much as 5 hours. On Saturday afternoon, the wave of journey progressively ebbed away, in keeping with the ÖAMTC.
Chaotic circumstances on the B159
Due to the renovation of the tunnel chain between Golling and Werfen with just one lane of site visitors, the A10 was fully overloaded from the night time earlier than on this primary busy journey weekend – primarily because of the begin of the Whitsun holidays in a number of German states. Within the early hours of the morning, the stationary column of automobiles had already stretched again to the Salzburg junction. Individuals who had already left the motorway earlier than the specifically closed exits in Tennengau additionally brought about chaotic site visitors circumstances within the villages on the parallel B159.
The mobility membership additionally recorded heavy site visitors in Tyrol. On the A13 (Brenner motorway) in direction of Brenner between Zenzenhof and the Schönberg toll station, the time loss was round an hour; in the wrong way there was stop-and-go site visitors between the Schlierbach bridge and the Stubai Valley. Even over the Fernpass (B179) within the Imst district, holidaymakers typically made solely gradual progress. In complete, round an hour was misplaced on the journey south.
Local weather activists protested in 3 federal states
Shortly after 10 a.m., local weather activists additionally caught themselves into the site visitors: In response to the ÖAMTC, the “Final Era” blocked necessary highway connections within the three western federal states. In Salzburg, round a dozen protesters caught themselves onto the congested Tauern Autobahn A10 close to Hallein; this demonstration ended after simply over an hour. Additionally blocked in Vorarlberg within the Hohenems space had been the L203 and the motorway exits of the A14 and in Tyrol the Fernpass (B179).
Asfinag activated further workers within the morning to offer water bottles to these ready in site visitors jams. 4 staff from Salzburg and Golling had been deployed to offer help, in keeping with a press launch.
Rest within the afternoon
The height was most likely reached on Saturday afternoon. At 3:30 p.m. the site visitors jam on the A10 was nonetheless about 12 kilometers lengthy, and the state of affairs on the B159 had additionally eased significantly, a spokeswoman for the ÖAMTC advised APA. On the Brenner motorway there have been solely slight delays earlier than the toll sales space, and there was additionally considerably much less site visitors on the Fernpass.
There have been additionally site visitors jams stretching for kilometers in neighboring Switzerland. In entrance of the Gotthard tunnel, automobiles had been backed up for 16 kilometers, the Touring Membership Switzerland (TCS) reported on Platform X. The time misplaced for drivers there was as much as two hours and 40 minutes.
