The holiday season is just around the corner, and not least due to problems and flight cancellations, the car is the preferred mode of transport for many holidaymakers. But that also means traffic jams, there is a lot of travel around Pentecost or Corpus Christi and also on weekends in July and August. And those could return to pre-Corona 2019 levels or clearly exceed them, Asfinag expects. However, construction sites do not contribute to a better traffic flow, which is why they want to reduce their number on travel routes.
About 300 major projects are completed every year. According to the company itself, only projects with construction and safety requirements and tight schedules are carried out from mid-June to mid-September.
“If there are construction sites on important travel routes, then the construction measures are absolutely necessary and cannot be carried out at other times due to the work intensity or importance,” says Andreas Fromm, Managing Director of Asfinag Bau Management GmbH. Renovations in the summer also take place when it comes to urgent repairs that cannot be postponed. In addition, time windows with less commuter traffic are used in agglomerations.
The exception to the rule
In principle, the same number of tracks is always available as in the “normal state”. The exception this summer is the Pyhrnautobahn (A9), where in Styria, as in the south of Upper Austria, for logistical reasons at tunnel construction sites, two-way traffic zones are arranged in sections with one lane in each direction.
Construction sites are usually not the reason for traffic jams
According to Asfinag, the main cause of traffic jams and delays in summer travel is not construction work, but mainly accidents, breakdowns or simply too much traffic when holidaymakers leave at the same time.
Source: Krone
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