Traffic chaos in Salzburg: 45 kilometers of traffic jam on Pentecost weekend!

Traffic chaos in Salzburg: 45 kilometers of traffic jam on Pentecost weekend!

What a chaos on Pentecost Saturday, June 7, 2025! In Salzburg there was a veritable collapse in travel, such as nau.ch . The traffic on the A10, the Tauern motorway, is already back to the tunnel construction site at Golling to the Salzburg node, which led to a traffic jam of around 30 kilometers. The situation was further tightened by an additional disorder on the Hiefler tunnel, which had to be blocked due to a defective vehicle.

The passengers had to be prepared for a waiting time of four and a half hours, while the rashes extended to 40 kilometers around 8:30 a.m. and later increase to 45 kilometers. Not only the travelers who only broke open on Friday afternoon and had to expect over an hour and a half waiting time at the tunnel construction site, but also those who tried to escape the overloaded Tauern motorway on the Salzachtal Bundesstrasse. This was completely closed on Friday afternoon, which caused many campers to spend the night in supermarket parking spaces.

traffic overload in the Alps

The traffic problems were not limited to Salzburg. The ÖAMTC also reported similar massive congestion in Tyrol and Styria. The traffic was particularly impaired on the B179, the Fernpass route. Also in the Innsbruck area (A12/A13) and on the Brenner Autobahn (A13) drivers calculated with a loss of time of up to an hour. Above all, the back travel wave of the Bavarian holidaymakers should be missing to Pentecost, which the transit routes were very exhausted.

In the Uri -Service in Switzerland, the traffic control centers reported excessive congestion from Saturday morning. In front of the north portal of the Gotthard street tunnel, the traffic jam reached a length of 19 kilometers around 10 a.m., which resulted in a loss of time of up to 3 hours and 10 minutes. The TCS recommended a detour to the A13 for travelers to the south.

traffic jam and traffic information for the A10

The Tauern Autobahn, which is a central north-south connection between Salzburg and Villach, is often overloaded on holiday weekends. It connects the federal states of Salzburg and Carinthia and leads over 24 kilometers through tunnels, such as Staumelder-karte . The traffic volume on the streets and the resulting traffic jams are not uncommon for the current travel load. The traffic jams and accident focuses on summer weekends are particularly strong.

A final end to the traffic problem is not in sight for the time being. The drivers in our region will have to prepare for increased traffic jams and traffic disruptions in the coming weeks if the holiday wave continues and the construction sites on the Tauern highway.