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Unavoidable or controllable?
Achensee is testing a dosing light on two days in February to deal with the sheet metal avalanche.
Miesbach district administrator Olaf von Löwis does not rule out something similar for the Tegernsee Valley.
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On February 10th and 17th, traffic lights regulate traffic around Lake Achensee.
Miesbach's District Administrator von Löwis (CSU) could imagine something similar for the Tegernsee Valley.
Tegernsee – On February 10th and 17th, Tyrol gets serious.
Then traffic on the B 307 comes to a standstill just behind the border at the Achen Pass.
A metering light in Achenkirch Nord is intended to prevent metal avalanches around Lake Achensee in the future.
Miesbach's district administrator Olaf von Löwis (CSU) could imagine something similar for the Tegernsee Valley.
What has long been practiced for truck traffic at the border near Kiefersfelden on the motorway to Austria with block handling is now also to be tested for cars at Lake Achensee on February 10th and 17th.
Because they no longer want to tolerate the long traffic jams of recent years down into the Inn Valley.
A dosing light in Achensee Nord should fix it.
The district government in Schwaz is still looking for a suitable location.
The result could be backlogs on the Bavarian side.
But Olaf von Löwis is calm towards Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), as they report.
He was informed about the measure in an exemplary manner by the district administration in Schwaz and could understand the Tyroleans in their fight against the sheet metal avalanches.
“We are now monitoring this dosage to see to what extent it can sensibly reduce and direct traffic,” BR quotes Löwis.
“If there are corresponding results that lead us to consider something similar: why not?” Löwis aims to ensure that his district would not rule out a dosing light from Holzkirchen towards Tegernsee.
Currently, signs on the A8 at the Holzkirchen exit are supposed to warn about block clearance on the B 307 towards Tyrol and encourage drivers to stay on the motorway.
Anyone who ignores these tips will face a long traffic jam behind Kreuth.
Because the traffic light in front of Achenkirch turns red after every vehicle. It only turns green after a few seconds, faster or slower depending on the traffic situation.
A second light next to the red signal counts down the seconds until the next green signal.
According to the Tyrolean authorities, there will likely be a traffic jam of four to five kilometers up to the Bavarian border.
“I don’t think there will be any backlogs as far as the Tegernsee Valley,” Kreuth’s mayor Josef Bierschneider is quoted as saying.
“Suddenly huge masses of vehicles would have to drive through our valley that day to create such a long traffic jam.”
The fact is that during truck block handling before Kufstein, the trucks sometimes back up to Irschenberg and further.
With the start of the carnival holidays, we know what effects the traffic lights in Achensee have on drivers in the Tegernsee Valley.