The damage is enormous: five mudslides! A9 will remain closed for a week

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Bitter news for many motorists, especially commuters: the Pyhrnautobahn A9 near Bösebach in Styria will remain closed until the end of next week! The damage caused by five mudslides is significant.

While Asfinag still had hope on Saturday evening that the highway could open on Sunday, there was already talk of Monday during the course of Sunday. Now it is clear: the ban will remain in force “at least until the end of next week”!

A two-way traffic zone could be set up on the Voralpenkreuz carriageway on Friday at the earliest. In any case, the renovation work on the playing field direction will take longer.

Avalanches up to two meters high
A total of five mudslides ended up on the streets. In some cases, the mud and debris avalanches were up to two meters high. Asfinag employees, fire brigade members and freight forwarders were deployed with twenty trucks and seven excavators to remove the mass of earth, but additional amounts of earth and especially water continued to emerge from the unstable slopes.

Geologists and bridge experts from Asfinag discovered on Sunday that the amounts of water also caused major damage to the highway. Hundreds of meters of all drainage systems, as well as fences and barriers for the protection of wildlife have been destroyed. The extent of the damage to the road cannot yet be estimated. A bridge north of the Bösebach junction is also affected, the pier of which was washed loose by the water masses.

Traffic will therefore be diverted from St. Michael and Deutschfeistritz in both directions via the S6 (Semmering Expressway) and the S35 (Brucker Expressway).

Source: Krone

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