Bergpoststrasse

Bergpoststrasse (4.05)

End of Bergpoststrasse (4.06)

A mountain post road is a special road in Switzerland . On these mountain postal routes have buses of Swiss Post always go first and may there, the three-tone horn use.

The Dreiklanghorn is used in regular service on mountain post roads for signaling or warning, e.g. B. used in front of confusing curves; buses from other licensed companies may also use it for this purpose. The tradition of the post horn lives on in the Dreiklanghorn . The Postbuses and other buses on mountain post roads are, besides police and rescue vehicles, the only motor vehicles in Switzerland for which multi-tone horns are permitted.

history

Bergpoststrasse near Oberiberg

The three-tone horn first played on the Bergpoststrasse in 1923. Postbuses have also been running across the Flüela since 1927 . 39 mountain roads were declared mountain post roads .

Legal

“The“ Bergpoststrasse ”signal (4.05) marks roads on which the driver must observe the signs and instructions of the drivers of vehicles in public service when difficult crossing and overtaking (Art. 38 Par. 3 VRV). Where this obligation ends, there is the signal «End of Bergpoststrasse» (4.06). "

- SR 741.21 Art. 45 : Marking of special roads ( Signalization Ordinance )

Bergpoststrasse (selection)

• Ilanz : Ruschein - Ladir
• Schwarzwaldalp : Scheideggstrasse (Bergpoststrasse Rosenlauital - Scheidegg - Grindelwald ) Meiringen / Willigen
• Flüela Pass
• Pfäffikon SZ - Feusisberg Luegeten

Web links

Dreiklanghorn Postbus

• Bergpoststrasse: The alternating three-tone horn is only allowed on these postbus routes. NZZ Online , December 7, 2005, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on March 24, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Key data on the history of PostBus. PostBus Schweiz AG , archived from the original on May 30, 2013 ; accessed on March 24, 2018 . 
2. ↑ SR 741.21 Art. 45