How intense is the alternative traffic?

Created: 10/06/2022 10:06 am

Is sometimes ignored: The ban on using alternative routes during block processing at the border - here the B 318 near Holzkirchen - obviously not all truck drivers stick to it.

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Residents noticed veritable truck convoys in the district on Tuesday during block clearance at the border.

Do the truck drivers ignore the signs?

District – It may be worth the next week as a field test.

Austria has announced block processing at the Kiefersfelden border crossing for four consecutive days.

And with the identical measure last Tuesday, the alternative traffic in the district of Miesbach seems to have increased noticeably to considerably.

Especially in the Holzkirchen area.

Karsten Hense from Hartpenning saw it that way and not just him.

"Trucks from all over the world line up through Holzkirchen and Hartpenning - from Austria, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, etc.," he writes to our editorial team.

And: "This is definitely not target traffic in the districts of Bad Tölz and Miesbach." In fact, those turning left on Tölzer Straße in Holzkirchen had to wait a long time on Tuesday morning.

The clear suspicion: alternative traffic.

Information signs on the federal highways are often ignored

This is not allowed, which is indicated by signs at the motorway junctions in the Miesbach district.

But not everyone takes it so seriously with this ban.

Eva Schmitz, site promoter in Holzkirchen, also made this observation.

In the meantime, she does not want to speak of an increased volume on Tuesday.

But very well from the fact that the signs are ignored.

More traffic by blocking the main road between Waakirchen and Tölz

This disregard could have led to an additional burden on Holzkirchen and Hartpenning on Tuesday.

Because the route via Kreuzstraße to Bad Tölz is no longer possible due to the full closure behind Waakirchen.

So everything about the B 13. The potential calculus of the truck drivers seems clear: Before they queue up through the traffic jam on the A 93 before Kiefersfelden - at peak times this extends back to the A 8 and from there to Irschenberg - they prefer to drive directly via Bad Tölz and the Achensee to Austria.

Interestingly, this can also be done quite legally.

Because if you leave the motorway in Hofolding, you can drive to Holzkirchen and on towards Tölz without any prohibition sign.

The respective district offices are responsible for putting up the signs,

Police tend to check closer to the border

The truck drivers hardly need to fear controls at the moment.

On the one hand, the police are currently acting in an accommodating manner and are positioned in front of the prohibition signs.

Those caught have therefore not yet committed any administrative offenses and are simply sent back onto the freeway.

On Tuesday there were 23 of almost 350 checked trucks - but this further east.

As Michael Janski, chief of the Holzkirchen motorway police, explains, the location of the patrol tends to be at the end of the traffic jam.

And on Tuesday that was far from reaching the Miesbach district.

At its maximum, it was twelve kilometers long, according to the Oberbayerisches Volksblatt.

Full pack next week: Four days of block processing

On the part of the authorities, apparently nobody really looked on Tuesday who could confirm the impression of Hense and other drivers.

There could be plenty of opportunity for that next week.

According to Austria, four more so-called dosing days are necessary due to “urgent renovation measures” on the Luegbrücke on the Brenner motorway.