Where can you vakantiefiles expect in Austria?

Posted on 08-07-2015 at 23:01 by Dizono – 32 Comments”

The yodeling doing you big time when you are stuck in one of the many vakantiefiles in this Alpine country.

Whether you’re a hut trip in Tirol or as soon as possible by Austria’s wants in the direction of your campsite in Tuscany, it can be there in the holiday season particularly busy. We can help you with some of the worst traffic jams to avoid.

Vignette
Just like in Switzerland, you are also in Austria you are required your windscreen to tarnish with a little tiny patch. Unlike the Swiss, they offer you in Austria also have the possibility to, in addition to a jaarvignet (€ 84,40), a 2-maandenvignet (€ 25,30) or even a 10-dagenvignet (€ 8,70) to buy. You can buy your vignette preferably already in the Netherlands, if you are not in a long line of waiting tourists want to end up at a border station. Do you want the cost of a vignette, and will save by scenic route to drive, be careful. Who was at Kufstein, the frontier is about, is already at the border crossing required a sticker on the windshield. There is a lot of checks and the fine is 120 euros.

Fines
About fines: small speeding tickets are generally a lot lower fine than in the Netherlands. Previously, violations in environmental zones, however, many times heavier, because they mileudelict were seen. They are happy once again dropped, though you will still pay 10 to 20 euro extra in case of a violation in such a zone. Stay careful, on more and more highways will be working with a dynamic limit. There Is too much pollution, then the speed is a piece down.

Files
You go into the holiday on a Friday or Saturday by Austria towards the south, then you would probably also want that at all, a speeding ticket may commit. To make matters worse, there are a lot of places also have toll stations, so the files itself are still a bit chronic.

A well-known bottleneck is the Tauern Autobahn (A10), between Salzburg and Villach and especially when the toll bridge at St. Michael im Lungau, the Katschbergtunnel and junction Villach. Also on the Brenner Autobahn (A13), between Innsbruck and the Italian border, you can go to the Brenner pass, files expect. In addition to that Brenner Autobahn is also the Brenner Bundesstrasse (182). This is usually calmer than the A13, particularly since this road is not open for trucks and cars with a trailer. Notorious is also the Fernpassstrasse (179), and not only among people who are lisping.

Further, it is at every border crossing with Italy in the holiday season on Friday and Saturday crowds are to be expected, while on the way back Sunday to avoid day. Who, for example, in the direction of Croatia travel and at Villach the E61 towards Ljubljana choose, by the Karawankentunnel and can better take into account with hefty delays.

Tunnels
Just as border crossings and toll stations, tunnels, a recipe for traffic jams. We stipten as the Karawankentunnel and the Katschbergtunnel, but plan your trip carefully as the Lermoosertunnel (179) on your route. Also the Dalaasertunnel and the Arlbergtunnel come invariably on the filelijstjes, all of you will this summer, not in the file for that last tunnel.

The Arlbergtunnel is close to mid-november. Via the pass (197) you are the parent mountains sway. Not only is that a significantly longer distance (ca. 35 km instead of 14 km), but would also be additional traffic congestion may lead. Note also that if you have a trailer heavier than 750 kilograms behind your car you hang on, you may pass.

Who the last five years, not by Austria, has driven and still is afraid of big delays in the tauern tunnel: since 2010, there is a second tunnel opened, which avoid congestion on this stretch of the A10 significantly decreased. Can you at least somewhere a little drive.

Useful information on other European holiday destinations you will find below:

• Belgium and Luxembourg
• Switzerland
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain

Photo: Opel Speedster Wesley on Autojunk.nl