On the Tauern Autobahn (A10), the traffic jam between the Salzburg and Golling-Abtenau junctions reached an impressive length of 28 kilometers in the morning, and between the Pongau and Flachau junctions was also around 20 kilometers. The Karawankenautobahn (A11) and the Fernpass Straße (B179) were also badly affected.
According to Aloisia Gurtner, spokeswoman for the ÖAMTC Salzburg, there has been a lot going on in the greater Salzburg area since the night hours: “People have been driving through without a break since Friday evening, there has not been a phase in which the traffic has noticeably decreased.” The motorists from Bavaria would have needed up to three hours longer via the Walserberg and then to the Tauern Tunnel. The mega traffic jam as experienced in 2019 did not materialize by Saturday afternoon, but the drivers kept coming to a standstill – one reason for this are several construction sites on the Tauernautobahn. Some motorists ignored the exit barriers.
According to Christina Hönigl from ARBÖ, the result on the A10 was up to an hour lost in each traffic jam. “After moderate delays in the morning, the stop-and-go on the Tauernautobahn reached a length of up to 28 kilometers between the Salzburg and Golling-Abtenau junctions at around 10:20 a.m., resulting in a loss of time of up to one hour in the southbound direction .”
There were also delays on the western autobahn (A1) between the Walserberg state border and the Salzburg junction, on the Inntal autobahn (A12) in the direction of the A13 Brenner autobahn, and on the A13 near Innsbruck and the Munich federal highway (B155) between the Freilassing border and the Lieferinger Spitz . A bottleneck was once again the Fernpass road (B179), where progress coming from the north was slow. Motorists left up to 70 minutes between the Vils/Füssen border tunnel and Bichlbach.
On the Karawankenautobahn (A11) in Carinthia, the traffic jam in the early morning stretched from the Rosegg service station to the border with Slovenia, making it around twelve kilometers long. The waiting time in front of the Karawanken tunnel when leaving the country was over an hour.
For German sun-seekers, the test of patience began even before entering Austria: There were kilometers of traffic jams and long waiting times on the German A8 in the direction of the Salzburg junction. On the Rosenheim-Innsbruck connection, progress on the A93 was sluggish over a distance of 24 kilometers, resulting in a loss of 30 minutes.
According to ÖAMTC spokeswoman Gurtner, Pentecost has developed into one of the busiest travel weekends. While the summer weekends used to be the busiest. In the meantime, Pentecost is the start of summer travel. However, she expects a wave of travel with heavy traffic until September this year.
Source: Nachrichten
