The renovation of the Tiroler Straße between the German city of Bayrischzell and the Tyrolean Thiersee will make commuting uncomfortable for residents of the surrounding municipalities in the coming weeks. The road has been completely closed for nearly four weeks. There is resentment on both sides of the border.
The city centers of Thiersee and Bayrischzell in Germany are actually separated by a national border and only 18 kilometers and the same number of minutes by car. But from next week, the national road 2075 will be completely closed for almost four weeks: a renovation of the road surface is badly needed – and Thierseern and Bayrischzellern are angry.
Cities are closely connected
“80 percent of our guests come from neighboring Bavarian villages,” says landlady Sabine Erhart from Thiersee, who is concerned about the customers. People from Bayrischzell refuel in Tyrol, the bakery in the neighboring German town supplies Thiersee with bread and commuters cross the border on their way to work. The detour required for all of them consumes time and fuel (see map). Those who live at the back of Landl and commute to Bayrischzell will soon be driving almost 100 kilometers a day.
The mood in the city is correspondingly bad, describes Thiersee’s mayor Rainer Fankhauser. He is also concerned about possible mudslides on the road to Kufstein: “We have had two total closures in the past two months. If that happens again, we’ll be cut off from the outside world.
Anger at late information and intransigent building authority
In Bayrischzell they assure the same. The few people whose houses are next to the construction site suffer the most: it takes an hour to drive quickly to the city – or to exercise, because the cycle path is open. The municipality has come up with something for the schoolchildren, but also for the farmers who have to bring their cattle into the valley.
Solutions had to be found very quickly, even though the notification for the construction site came at the beginning of the summer: “We could not read that it was a complete closure,” explains Josef Acher from the municipality of Bayrischzell.
In Thiersee nobody knew anything, the mayor was furious: ‘I heard about the resident ban. An official confirmation only came by email on Monday.” Fankhauser is “shocked” that the Bavarian government is not refraining from the complete closure despite the intervention of both municipalities. But Tyrol has nothing to say because it is a German project. “An agreement on roadblocks is generally not common practice unless major traffic routes are affected,” the country says.
Occupational safety makes unilateral blocking impossible
German occupational safety guidelines require both lanes to be closed at the same time because the road is so narrow, explains the responsible Rosenheim State Building Authority.
Source: Krone
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