As of: February 11, 2024, 2:30 p.m
By: Christof Schnürer
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Unbelievable: The never-ending avalanche of metal even plagues the residential area on Gebirgspionierstrasse in Mittenwald.
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The climatic health resort of Mittenwald was hit by an unprecedented avalanche of metal on Saturday.
Even on residential streets and side streets, incorrigible long-distance travelers wanted to squeeze their way through in their cars.
Mittenwald
– The disaster began in the morning.
Suddenly, on Carnival Saturday, car after car lined up in Mittenwald - from morning to evening, a seemingly endless avalanche of metal rolled through the so-called climatic health resort.
“It’s crazy,” says Marille Jungkunz.
“Everything was closed, even in the side streets.” The landlady of the Postkeller kept looking out the window, shaking her head, to watch the traffic chaos that was happening in front of her on Innsbrucker Straße.
“It was good for us,” says the restaurateur.
“Because some of them came to eat with us.” True to the motto: If you’re going to be stuck in a traffic jam, then at least not on an empty stomach.
I don't know what's going on in their heads either.
Police officer from Seefeld
At the beginning of the Bavarian carnival holidays, holidaymakers and day-trippers were heading south across the entire district - from the end of the motorway near Eschenlohe to the state border at Scharnitz and far beyond.
“For us, even in both directions,” says a spokesman for the Seefeld police.
He speaks of “congestion traffic with a standstill”.
And this despite the fact that no accident or anything like that had happened before.
“I don’t know what’s going on in people’s heads either,” wonders the police officer from the neighboring Tyrolean town.
Because on the one hand everyone wants to go home at the same time after breakfast, on the other hand everyone is pushing towards the ski resorts in the opposite lane.
No wonder that the inspection in Garmisch-Partenkirchen reported at some point: “Massive traffic disruptions due to overloading of the road network.” Which could possibly also have something to do with the blockade campaign by climate activists on the Fernpass road or the blockade at the Achenpass.
Many will therefore have taken the corridor between Mittenwald and Seefelder Plateau.
Ultimately a bad choice for everyone involved.
In order to avoid the kilometer-long traffic jam on the B2, many cars turned off towards Mittenwald.
As a result, hair-raising scenes took place even in residential areas.
The residents in the settlement on Gebirgspionierstrasse and in the Fischweiher industrial area, for example, couldn't believe their eyes when non-local cars polluted the air with running engines.
Faced with these unbearable conditions, Mayor Enrico Corongiu picked up the phone and asked the police for help.
She is said to have told him clearly that she was not allowed to block any roads.
“Then I’ll just have to contact the district administrator about the matter.”