Bavaria is fed up with the fact that numerous trucks are speeding through small towns near the border every day because of the block handling in Austria. That is why the Prime Minister now wants to block roads for trucks. In the meantime, a first discussion with the actors involved has taken place.
The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) calls for road closures for trucks in Bavaria. The decisive reason for this is the dispute that has been going on for years about block handling in Austria, which causes traffic jams and numerous truck passages in small communities in the Free State. But now Bavaria is losing patience, Söder wrote on Twitter.
In order to protect the residents in the affected villages in the Inn Valley and in Upper Bavaria, measures must now be taken. This includes, for example, blocking alternative traffic, which the district offices responsible for country roads could enforce. The state government would support them with police checks, among other things, explained Söder. “Otherwise there is a risk of gridlock,” said the Prime Minister.
Furthermore, he has already commissioned the interior and transport ministers to draw up a corresponding concept. In addition, the CSU chairman emphasized that he also wanted to make the federal government responsible. After all, this is responsible for the federal autobahn and can impose “departure bans for national traffic on the A8 and A93”.
In the meantime, there is said to have been a first discussion on this matter. As reported by the Rosenheim district office, the two ministers, the police and the federal Autobahn GmbH had come together.
In the course of this, the parties involved found that the blocking of motorway exits for truck transit traffic was the easiest option to implement. Blocking of through roads, on the other hand, is more complicated. The district office explained that the extent to which there is a legally secure solution to the problem is being investigated further.
At Vienna’s behest, the block handling is intended to prevent truck traffic from backing up on Austria’s A12 Inntal autobahn. A maximum of 250 trucks per hour may pass through the dosing point provided for this purpose, after which the trucks must stop. As a result, only one lane is passable for normal traffic. The result is usually large traffic jams and traffic delays.
