Innsbruck (OTS) – With a cross-border truck slot system on the Brenner corridor, Tyrol does not yet get a “game changer” for the transit avalanche. However, the “Kufstein Declaration” was by no means for nothing. It was a start.
Kufstein Fortress is no stranger to big theatre. Historical anyway. Yesterday there was both equally within the renovated walls. With the “Kufstein Declaration”, the regional heads Anton Mattle (Tyrol), Arno Kompatscher (South Tyrol) and Markus Söder (Bavaria) signed a declaration of intent to set up cross-border digital traffic management along the Brenner corridor on the occasion of their first joint appearance.
No longer arguing, but working hand in hand on solutions. Anyone who yesterday listened to the shawm tones between Tyrol and Bavaria high above the much-sung about fortress town imagined themselves more in Kai Pflaume’s “Only Love Counts” show than between two – until then – deeply divided neighbors on traffic issues. The Bavarian Prime Minister Söder Rosen told him that Mattle broke the years of radio silence from Tyrol. A reckoning with ex-LH Günther Platter’s transit policy can also sound like this. Platter and Söder had never come up with a branch. The CSU boss does not hide the fact that Bayern would not dream of giving up his position simply by signing a declaration of intent. Tyrol’s truck block handling is still considered illegal in the EU. If allowed, one would continue to try to sue at EU level. Nevertheless, the Brenner transit issue is an issue of European proportions. That’s why Söder now prefers working together to a hiccup Dacapo. An interest that the upcoming election in Bavaria and the increasing traffic suffering of the local population aroused in Söder and their transit blinkers should have loosened.
Mattle (VP), however, does not have to abjure the “emergency measures” mantra with the Kufstein declaration. Even if block handling 2.0 is installed with a slot, there should be no truck driving ban. The fact that Bavaria has now at least swung to Slot helps Mattle to free Tyrol from the impasse into which Platter’s transit policy has led the country.
The Kufstein declaration for Tyrol is not a “game changer”. As a result, not a single truck will drive over the Brenner Pass less. At least not as long as the slot is only intended to dose or steer the heavy traffic and not limit it. However, the Fortress Pact can be a first step, provided that Italy and Germany give their sanctions. And so the biggest hooks are named: their Transport Minister Matteo Salvini (Lega) and Volker Wissing (FDP).
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