Increase truck toll and diesel price?
Political failure in block processing on the Autobahn
Created: 05/24/2022, 10:24 am
By: Dirk Walter
The truck block handling as a bone of contention: Dirk Walter comments for the Munich Merkur.
© Michael Kappeler/dpa (merkur.de collage)
Traffic jams due to block handling between Bavaria and Austria: The problem has been going back and forth at the political level for years, comments Dirk Walter.
Munich - It's already tearing your hair out.
With the problem of block handling at the Bavarian-Austrian border near Kufstein, literally nothing is progressing.
Political failure par excellence!
30 to 40 times a year there is a heavy truck traffic jam because the Tyroleans - oh no wonder - do not open their beautiful Alpine country to unlimited truck transit.
In the Pentecostal holiday month of June, it gets particularly thick: Nine so-called dosing days have been announced, and on Friday and Saturday at the start of the Pentecostal holidays, holidaymakers in the direction of Tyrol/South Tyrol have to be prepared for traffic jams up to the Salzburg A 8 motorway.
Political failure in block processing
This is all the more annoying since the problem has been going back and forth at the political level for several years.
It is vaguely remembered: as early as 2018, the then Bavarian Minister of Transport, Ilse Aigner, called for urgent solutions at a Brenner summit.
More than a flood of protest letters and Bavarian threats have not come out since then - and the fact that the new Minister of Transport Christian Bernreiter, hardly in office, now again in a letter demanding EU intervention, will hardly promote the willingness of the Tyroleans to negotiate.
But it is urgently needed.
Both sides have to move.
The truck toll on the route has to be increased, as must the price of diesel in Tyrol - and then finally, and if necessary with coercion, more trucks have to be shifted to the railways.
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