More and more often, there are endless queues of trucks and evasive traffic on the Bavarian side due to the blocking of the Tyrol. Now, Minister President Söder wants to take the transit dispute with Austria into his own hands and partially relieve the Bavarian road network of HGV traffic.
With the easing of the traffic situation, the driving bans were lifted. They were aimed at reducing congestion and keeping the load on several rural roads under control.
Traffic still plays too large a role in the emissions balance. The province wants to set a good example and is launching a pilot project at the district administration of Schwaz.
To improve air quality and public health, as well as to contribute to the fight against climate change, a wide variety of cities and countries are making increased efforts and rethinking their mobility in urban and urban agglomerations. In many places, increasing road safety in heavily travelled areas is also important, leading to the introduction of traffic restrictions, in addition to Green Zones, to improve air quality. Green-Zones® summarises the latest developments from the UK and Tyrol.
In order to reduce truck congestion and evasive traffic on public holidays and during the summer season, driving bans will be applied on both sides of the Brenner Pass. The Tyrolean environmental zone will also remain in force.
Around 150,000 delivery vehicles of the US Postal Service are to be renewed. But instead of using e-cars, the US postal fleet will be replaced by combustion engines. Criticism is now pouring in.
For climate protection reasons, since 1 March all car drivers throughout Vienna have to pay for standing. From 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. parking is only allowed for two hours. This is intended to halve commuter traffic.
Sound is omnipresent. Too much sound is noise and it can have a detrimental effect on our health. In some European countries, noise protection zones are now being introduced to combat the noise caused by traffic even more strongly.
Due to adverse weather conditions, new rules have been in force on the motorways in Tyrol since Saturday, 5 February 2022. All trucks with a total weight of more than 7.5 tonnes are affected.
For years, the Tyrolean government has been denouncing that the Brenner Pass is too cheap for freight traffic. Now a study has confirmed that many trucks themselves take detours in order to use the cheap Brenner Pass. This causes congestion and traffic jams on the motorway.
