City tunnel (Bregenz)
| City tunnel | ||||
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 City-side portal of the city tunnel
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| use | Motorway feeder | |||
| traffic connection | Rheintal / Walgau Autobahn (A14) | |||
| place | Bregenz , Austria | |||
| length | 1311 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| Largest coverage | 20 m | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Republic of Austria | |||
| completion | 1984 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | ASFINAG | |||
| toll | No vignette requirement for cars and motorcycles since December 15, 2019 | |||
| release | June 1, 1984 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| Bregenz-Weidach | 47 ° 29 ′ 20 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 40" E | |||
| Bregenz pre-monastery | 47 ° 29 ′ 55 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 7" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Citytunnel in Bregenz is a 1,311 m long tunnel in the course of the feeder to the Rheintal / Walgau Autobahn A14 for the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz .
The city tunnel became necessary after the A14 along the shores of Lake Constance was abandoned in favor of the Pfänder tunnel in the 1970s due to the displeasure of the Bregenz population . In order to relieve the residential areas in the southeast of the city of Bregenz, an approx. 2 km long motorway feeder was built directly from the south portal of the Pfänder tunnel near Bregenz-Weidach under the Ölrain to the L202 near the Bregenz train station , the industrial area and the main road to Switzerland .
Due to this much more complex construction compared to a junction directly on the motorway, the connection from Bregenz to the motorway has also been delayed. The section of the A14 from Dornbirn -Nord to the state border at Hörbranz was opened to traffic on December 10, 1980, while the city tunnel and the Bregenz junction upstream could only be opened on June 1, 1984. Nevertheless, in order to take account of the increase in traffic, an additional Bregenz-Weidach junction was built on the motorway slip road in the first years of the 21st century, immediately before the connection with the motorway .
Approximately in the middle of the tunnel there is a side tunnel that is used for tunnel ventilation and as an emergency exit. The ventilation in the tunnel is designed as longitudinal ventilation in two sections, the single-tube tunnel is driven on by two-way traffic.
Toll
According to the Federal Roads Act, the Citytunnel is part of the Rheintal / Walgau Autobahn A14 as a feeder road and thus part of the highest-ranking road network. For this reason, all journeys through the city tunnel, regardless of whether the main branch of the A14 was used or not, were subject to a toll on Austrian motorways up to December 15, 2019 . With a resolution of the Austrian National Council , the stretch of the A14 motorway between Hörbranz and Hohenems, and thus also the city tunnel as a feeder to this section of the motorway, was exempted from the vignette requirement for cars and motorcycles otherwise applicable in Austria. The city tunnel has therefore been toll-free since December 15, 2019.
In June 2013, a motorist tried to overturn the previously valid toll regulation by coming from the Weidach junction without a valid vignette through the city tunnel to Rheinstrasse, without using the main section of the A14. ASFINAG then reported him to the Bregenz district administration. In an inquiry response to the Vorarlberg state parliament in August 2013 , state governor Karlheinz Rüdisser also emphasized the position of the Vorarlberg state government , according to which the city tunnel is clearly part of the A14 motorway (to be administered by the federal government) and therefore tolls are compulsory in accordance with the current legal situation. Rüdisser also refused to take over the city tunnel as part of the Vorarlberger Landesstraßen , referring to the associated costs for maintenance and repair by the state of Vorarlberg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Toll exemption in force. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 15, 2019, accessed December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (Ed.): Statistics Road & Traffic 2015 , Section 3.5 Traffic Approvals , p. 17.
- ↑ Bregenzer is fighting against mandatory tolls. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 11, 2013, archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; accessed on March 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Inquiry response to the inquiry tolling of the city tunnel - Justice or chicane of ASFINAG? dated August 16, 2013, accessed December 2, 2015.