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Traffic Query - Bregenz/Pfander Tunnel Area
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We drove back to Memmingen airport via the above on the evening of Sat 25th Feb - ie the end of Fasching carnival week.
The traffic was horrendous - totally gridlocked before and after the Pfander tunnel near Bregenz - so much so that it took almost 4 hrs
for the 195km from Landeck, almost all of which is motorway. Fortunately, despite arriving 25 mins after the flight should have closed, we were still allowed to fly as the flight was delayed. Phew!
Anyway, we're considering a return Memmingen run over easter weekend, returning to the airport on the Tues or Wed evening after Easter Monday. So my question is, is a gridlock situation around the Pfander tunnel normal? Or were we just unfortunate because of Fasching
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Thery often impose "Blockanfertigung in the Pfändertunnel when the volume of traffic is high. This is where they let the traffic through alternately so they can use both lanes for one direction. Fasching was horrendous just about everywhere due to the high number of people travelling back home (it was the end of the Bavarian school Half-Term as well as one half of the Netherlands).
Easter should not be so bad BUT you could drop off the motorway and go through Bregenz if the volume of traffic looks bad. You can rejin the motorway the other side near to Lindau. If you look at the map it is relatively easy to avoid the tunnel if you leave the motorway early enough. I've done it before as I would rather suffer stop & go with traffic lights etc, than sit in a queue going nowhere fast.
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?
We did the journey back that way on Mon 20th Feb and were stuck just before the tunnel for about 30 mins; no apparent cause other than congestion. Other than that the roads were clear. We just made our flight too!
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for the 195km from Landeck, almost all of which is motorway. Fortunately, despite arriving 25 mins after the flight should have closed, we were still allowed to fly as the flight was delayed. Phew!
