With vacation and through traffic, it often gets tight on Tyrol’s streets. A summer driving ban on certain streets is now to protect residents.
Innsbruck – Easter is just around the corner. For many, the car will go south by car in the coming days, including to Austria or Italy. The Austrian state of Tyrol is always particularly affected by travel and through traffic. As a “emergency measure”, the state government there is now introducing so-called summer driving bans with a view to the coming months. Vacationers now have to be careful, because: The first driving bans come into force on April 18.
Austria introduces summer driving bans on many streets-an “emergency measure”
“Even in the summer of 2025, Tyrol will not stand by and how the alternative traffic overruns our communities,” said Tyrol’s governor Anton Mattle (ÖVP) in a press release. In the coming months, the state of Tyrol once again blocks numerous alternative routes. This is intended to prevent drivers from avoiding traffic jams by using smaller roads.
“The driving bans are an emergency measure to ensure security in our Tyrolean communities, to reduce traffic loads from the villages and to improve the quality of life of our citizens,” Mattle continued. In the past, the holiday traffic had repeatedly too long traffic jams and a collapse of traffic in small towns along the alternative routes led in Austria.
Attention holidaymakers: First summer driving bans as early as April 18
The summer driving bans apply in the districts of Innsbruck-Land and Innsbruck-Stadt. There they come into force on April 18 and are valid on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In the districts of Imst, Kufstein and Reutte they start on May 1st and also end in early November.
Compliance with the driving bans is controlled by the police. Another goal is to “also be banned in navigation systems,” said Tirol’s traffic councilor René Zumtobel. So far, navigation devices in traffic jams have often referred to small municipal roads or local passages as potentially faster alternative.
Summer driving bans follow in winter driving bans-“noticeable relief”
Already last winter there were numerous driving bans in Austria – apparently with great effect. A total of almost 250,000 cars in Tyrol were rejected by the police to the main traffic routes, the statement said. As a result, “a noticeable relief for the affected communities” has been achieved, said Governor Mattle. The upcoming summer driving bans are practically seamlessly connected to the winter driving bans.
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