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Are Snow Chain illegal in Austria?
 Poster: A snowHead
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@DrLawn, Thats right never owned snow chains. There have been a couple of occasions when they might have been useful - access to properties "up the hill" but other than that no need. Most cars with winter tyres will deal with practically anything on main roads, 4x4 obviously better. As noted above a lot of the chaos is caused by folk stopping to put on chains (often with little idea of how to do so). If you are driving from UK to Alleghe then no issue all the way to Bozen but not sure about the last section through the mountains though sure it will be similar to Austria with road clearing, perhaps San Pellegrino might be an issue though I doubt it. In Austria the only major resort I can think of where chains are sometimes required is the pass to Lech (only in very heavy snow then usually non 4x4 chains up & down 4x4 just down) there are a few other spots but usually no need to use those roads.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Thanks @munich_irish,
I do remember parking down in Zug many years ago and having to get the chains on to get back to Pettnau.
I think we were the last out and back as they closed the road after us.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

It depends a lot where you are based. The access road to our apartment was quite steep and smaller local roads are not cleared regularly at night. If the snow's heavy, even chains won't do the job - you can't shove a car through deep snow. Friends, a French family with small kids, had to leave their car at the bottom and carry the kids up, arriving at midnight. Fortunately they were young and strong. Must have been exhausting - a steep ten minutes, even with no snow on the road. The other access roads (one steep 10kms, the other a more moderate 5 kms) sometimes needed chains too - and there was always a faff when they realised, a bit late, that the regular ski busses were going to need chains. In snowy times (the best times!) I'd reckon that at least half the cars in Les Saisies (on a col at 1650m) would have chains on.
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