Karawanken Tunnel: ASFINAG Starts Construction of the second Tube

摘要

On September 18, 2018, ASFINAG (Austrian Motorway Authority) heralded in the complete further development of the KarawankenTunnel with the ground-breaking ceremony on the A 11 Karawanken motorway. Thanks to this new structure cofi-nanced by the EU, the two-way section on the important north-south link between Austria and Slovenia will soon be a thing of the past. This will provide more traffic safety quite apart from bringing a significant relief for the route, which is particularly busy in summer. Outside the holiday season, some 10 000 vehicles use the A 11 Karawanken motorway on a daily basis; in the summer months, however, the figure swells to more than 30 000 vehicles per day. Congestion is inevitable on account of the restricted capacity provided by a single tunnel tube.