Number of pass blocking reaches record level.

Snow should at least now in the Alps with his vacation: Due to heavy snowfall had in the past week, 13 more road passes are closed. The after a rockslide blocked the Gotthard motorway could be released again.

 

Stuttgart / Altdorf - The heavy snowfalls in the last few days, the traffic situation in the Alps tightened. Meanwhile, had 57 of about 200 passes in the mountains blocked. That had as many as never before in the winter 2008/09, told the Auto Club Europa (ACE) on Monday in Stuttgart.

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Gotthard motorway: Vollsperrung on Sunday

In comparison to the previous week were 13 more routes have been closed. These include the Val Gardena, Pordoi and the Sella, the Jaufenpass, the role of the passport and Valparola in Italy. Even the Plöckenpass on the border between Austria and Italy as well as the Lukmanier Pass in Switzerland are not passable.

The ACE expects that, due to persistent snow falls further road closures will come. In Austria and Switzerland must also numerous federal and cantonal roads with disabilities due to snow can be expected. Motorists should be present only in the trunk with snow in the Alps break. A table with the current arrangements for the various passes is the
ACE on the Internet.

In Switzerland on Monday after a rockslide blocked the Gotthard motorway be released again. Because of the damage to the roadway, it was in both directions but only passably single, shared with the authorities. In the night from Saturday to Sunday were two large boulders on the track removed. Four cars drove into the rock masses. It remained in sheet metal damage, nobody was injured.

On Monday morning, experts surveyed by helicopter to breaking points. The assessment of geologists have shown that immediately crashes with no further action will be taken. The repair of roads can be up to five days.