As of: February 4, 2024, 5:11 a.m
By: Josef Hornsteiner
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Shifting traffic: The toll on the Fern Pass (red route) will make the alternative route (blue) significantly more attractive, say experts.
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The Garmisch-Partenkirchen district is already struggling with enormous traffic volumes.
Experts believe that this will soon become even more so: the Tyrolean neighbors are able to do what the federal government has not yet been able to do: introduce a toll at the Fernpass.
The district will be responsible for the alternative traffic.
District – One thing is clear to District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters): “This has an enormous impact on the entire district.” Traffic will increase, Speer is not kidding himself.
The streets, which are already crowded with day trippers and summer visitors on peak days, become even more crowded.
The district boss will hardly be able to prevent this: because the cause lies abroad, more precisely in the Ausserfern region.
The Tyrolean neighbors also want to introduce a toll for the Fernpass by 2028 with a comprehensive package of measures – a whopping 14 euros per trip.
This means that the traffic flow is likely to shift to Innsbruck or Italy in the future.
“Through our district,” Speer swears evilly.
As reported, the Tyroleans are planning a large transport project for the Reutte district, which should make the Fernpass faster and safer.
The centerpiece will be a 1.4 kilometer long summit tunnel, which will replace 4.8 kilometers of pass road.
In this area, the Fernpass is susceptible to landslides, closures due to the risk of avalanches or obstructions due to slippery roads, particularly in winter, according to the state of Tyrol.
In addition to the planned toll section between Blindsee and Nassereith, a second tube is also being built in the three-kilometer-long Lermoos Tunnel.
And the old pipe is being renovated.
District administrator understands concerns of Tyrolean neighbors
So far so good.
Speer understands that the Tyrolean neighbors want to introduce measures to combat the enormous traffic burden.
“I have nothing against the expansion of the Fernpass,” he emphasizes.
He recently attended the New Year's reception in Ehrwald and spoke to Austrian politicians there.
The expansion is in the coalition agreement and is intended to bring the long-awaited traffic relief, it says.
After all, the B 179 is one of the most heavily used state roads in all of Tyrol.
It is of particular importance for national transport.
On peak days, over 30,000 vehicles travel the route, says the ADAC.
If the toll comes, cars will take the tangent via Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Mittenwald and Scharnitz to the Inntal motorway as an alternative route to Italy or the Tyrolean ski areas.
“I’m 100 percent sure of that,” says Speer.
“We have to stick with it, a solution has to be found.” However, what that might look like would be in the hands of big politics.
One truck causes as much damage to the road surface as 100,000 cars.
Martin Herda, head of department at the Weilheim State Building Authority
His fears are supported by the Weilheim State Building Authority.
The authority is responsible for federal highways 2 and 23 through the Ammer, Loisach and Isar valleys.
“It can generally be assumed that the introduction of a toll on the Fernpass will increase the attractiveness of these alternative routes,” says Martin Herda, head of the South Road Construction department.
For the expert, this is “undisputed”.
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Road maintenance costs will only increase slightly
Does the volume of traffic also increase the costs for taxpayers if the roads become more worn?
The district can count itself lucky that the Zirler Berg is on the alternative route, says Herda.
This section has been closed to heavy goods traffic for a long time due to its steepness.
“The road load in the ratio of cars to trucks is around 1:100,000,” calculates Herda.
Means: “One truck damages the road substance as much as 100,000 cars.”
Since the Fernpass route is also a transit route excluding heavy goods traffic (closed to vehicles over 7.5 tons), a shift in the number of cars is to be expected.
“That doesn’t play a role when designing the road structure.
The wear on the road surface can therefore be classified as low,” says the expert.
The only thing that cannot be measured by numbers is the frayed nerves of the locals.
He also looks with some trepidation at the planned tunnel projects in the district.
“This will make the route through the district even more attractive in the future.” The multi-million dollar tubes in the Loisachtal will attract further traffic.
“How much all of this ultimately amounts to is very difficult to estimate.”
Ammertal also fears traffic chaos due to increasing car traffic.
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