It is a well-known fact that Tyrol took measures this year when it came to holiday traffic: In order to prevent people passing through driving off the motorway in the event of a traffic jam and clogging up the low-level road network, so-called exit bans were again in effect over the summer. The result: there were more than 70,000 rejections in total, most of them along the B179 Fernpassstraße.
This summer, the Tyrolean police sent around 73,000 vehicles back onto the autobahn because they wanted to use the lower-level road network to avoid a traffic jam. The departure bans applied to eight weekends and two public holidays. The Reutte district was particularly affected due to the Fernpass route. More than 40,000 rejections in the Ausserfern As a result of excursion, travel and through traffic, there was also heavy traffic in the Innsbruck-Land district, but less in the Kufstein district. Overall, there were around 29,300 rejections this year in the Innsbruck-Land district, around 2,600 in the Kufstein district, over 40,400 in the Reutte district and around 440 near Innsbruck-Stadt. also urgently needed this year”. “After consultation with experts, it was possible to prevent major disruptions and traffic collapse on busy weekends in the local area of Reutte, in Kufstein and in the greater Innsbruck area,” explained Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) and his deputy Ingrid Felipe (Greens) in a broadcast . Destination, resident and originating traffic were excluded. For Felipe, the extension of the weekend ban on truck driving in summer to include Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. has also proven its worth. “In the coming year, we also want to include Whit Saturday, one of the most traffic-intensive days of the year, in the driving ban calendar,” announced the Transport Minister.
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