As chairman of the transport committee Reinhold Kassmannhuber (VP) in Gmunden currently has its hands full: As early as April, drivers in the city area should step on the brakes, Tempo 40 is about to be decided in the next municipal council meeting on Monday. Also on the Esplanade you want to turn the screws: In the future, cars should only drive out of town on Sundays. The second lane is then available to cyclists.
Kassmannhuber has racked his brains over one topic in particular over the past few weeks: finding the most sensible solution for the traffic-plagued Traunsteinstrasse.
As reported, the community’s initiative to charge for the reverse parking lot – at 25 euros per day more expensive than a parking space at Linz Airport – met with resistance. Because mainly those who stop at one of the two huts on the Traunstein or hike to the nearby Mairalm park there, the hut keepers feared severe losses. The alpine clubs also went on the barricades and campaigned vehemently for an expansion of the public bus service. But this will not come – for the time being.
15 euros per day as a middle ground
At a meeting in early March, in addition to the mayor Stephen Krapf (VP) too Andrew Murray, managing director of the Traunsee-Almtal-Tourism Association, representatives of alpine clubs and the hut owners took part, there was a heated debate about alternative solutions, but the result remained the same: the return parking lot is continuously charged. The parking machines have already been installed.
However, the costs for a parking space on the eastern shore of Lake Traunsee have been reduced: mountaineers, hikers and day-trippers now pay 15 euros for a day (from three hours). There should also be a three-hour ticket and a 48-hour ticket. Their costs will also be adjusted.
The rest of Traunsteinstraße remains a short-term parking zone (180 minutes) free of charge on weekends and public holidays. Shuttle buses, which are subject to a fee and bring hikers from the Seebahnhof in Gmunden to the foot of the Traunstein, should also roll over the Traunsteinstraße again. A new bus company is hired for this – but the negotiations are not yet complete.
If you still want to drive in the direction of the reversing car park, a new digital display will inform you about the free parking spaces at the Seebahnhof.
Whether the entire Traunsteinstrasse will become a fee zone in the future – a proposal that has already been intensively discussed – is currently still open.
Source: Nachrichten
