Traffic chaos on the burner highway: truck traffic jam to Matrei!

Traffic chaos on the burner highway: truck traffic jam to Matrei!

Gossensaß, Italien - A defective truck ensured massive traffic disruptions on the A22 burner motorway near Sterzing this morning. In Gossensass, the vehicle had stuck exactly in a construction site area that is currently only accessible. As the traffic police in Sterzing announced, the highway had to be completely closed at 4.30 a.m. to tow the vehicle. The backlog was enormous: for truck drivers, the queue extended to Matrei, while car drivers had to wait until Lower Austria. According to the reports of Radio Tirol, it could take some time before the traffic on the Tyrolean side normalizes again, which causes the commuters on this particularly stressed section of the route.

Modern truck control center in Sterzing

parallel to the congestion problems on the burner highway is worked on a state-of-the-art truck control center near Sterzing, which is to be put into operation in the summer of 2025. This new control center is on the transit traffic route and aims to increase traffic safety and check environmental standards. Arno Kompatscher, the head of government of Bolzano Province, explained that the system will help control the proper functioning of the vehicles and prevent manipulation on control devices. According to Carlo Costa, the technical general director of the A22 , the test center is equipped with the latest technology, including thermal cameras and special scales for heavy transports. These measures are an important step to check the compliance with all regulations and to regulate the increasingly critical traffic along one of the most busy transit routes in Europe.

In this way, not only potential dangers for traffic safety should be recognized, but also illegal overcharge and technical defects in the vehicles should be identified in good time. This initiative becomes particularly relevant in order to better regulate the truck traffic that runs over the Brenner and handles the first field in Switzerland. A similar control point has already been put into operation on the Austrian A10 motorway and has proven to be effective. These developments could symbolize the effort to make traffic more secure and environmentally friendly, while the pressing congestion problems are tackled on the burner highway.