Those truckers who were to go through the Tyrolean Brenner Pass yesterday couldn’t hide their outrage. The Austrians organized further block checks. Unfortunately, the result was deplorable, especially on the Bavarian highways. Thousands of trucks stuck on the routes leading to Brenner. The policemen who tried to control the situation also had full of work.
A block check was held yesterday on the Austrian-Italian border. „The Tyrolean government is talking about great success, but the Bavarian police see it in a completely different way,” reports the German transport portal verkehrsrundschau.de.
According to the police spokesman from Rosenheim (Bavaria), on the A 93 (Inntalautobahn) in Tyrol, 80 km long traffic jam was created on the Bavarian side. Only on the A8 from Munich to Salzburg, the line of trucks exceeded 40 km.
In order to make the passenger traffic in the left lane as smooth as possible, it was necessary to involve 90 patrols.
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European Commission against block controls
This week, Brussels sent a letter to the Austrians, in which it calls for a reduction in the number of block checks (a total of 25 from March to November).
As EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc emphasized, the systematic use of block checks violates the free movement of goods and services, and thus one of the fundamental principles of the functioning of the Union. In addition, in the Commission’s view, this solution is „not very helpful and disproportionate”
How do block checks look like?
At the border, police officers or customs officers control the number of trucks crossing the border. When it reaches the upper limit (i.e. 250 or 300), the others standing in the queue must wait an hour. After this time the procedure is repeated.
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