When 24 tonnes of apples are catapulted across a road it can only mean a jam. And in this case it was a traffic jam that went on for three hours as firemen and police struggled to remove the fruit that had spread across the road in the agricultural district of Oberpullendorf in eastern Austria’s […]
A traffic cop in Austria got more than he bargained for after a booby trap covered him head-to-toe in manure as he was trying to catch people speeding. Police said an explosive put in a plastic bucket filled with liquid manure was set to detonate when somebody triggered a fishing line placed nearby. PC Gunther […]
Trips taken on public transport, by bike or on foot will account for 80% of all trips made in Vienna by 2025 if the city’s Urban Development Plan goes through as planned. The announcement was made by Vice Mayor Maria Vassilakou (Green) on Wednesday, who emphasised that traffic was a key feature of the plan […]
Motorcyclists accounted for one in four deaths on roads in the Tyrol region last year, despite the fact that they make up just two percent of total traffic volume. Forty-six people were killed in road accidents in Tyrol in 2013 – 13 of which were motorcyclists, according to preliminary figures released by state police on […]
Train passengers in Austria would like more connections throughout Austria, a train ticket which covers the whole country as well as train plans which connect the whole country. This is the result of a study by the Austrian Traffic Club. Older passengers were more positive about the Austrian train service than others. Those under thirty […]
Heavy traffic is expected on the roads to the east of Austria as 470,000 children in Vienna, Lower-Austria and Burgenland start the nine-week summer holiday today. Regions to the west of Austria begin the summer holidays one week later, but holidays are also starting today for school children in Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and […]
Air-traffic controllers across Europe staged a day of protest against the EU plan to unify the European airspace yesterday (Wednesday). There were limited disruptions to Austrian air traffic – the only flights affected were those to and from France. Officials at Vienna-Schwechat’s international airport said that ten links to Paris, Nice and Lyon (France) were […]
The civil case of the city of Linz, Upper Austria, against the Bawag bank about the swap deal will start on 24 May. The maximum amount of damage for Linz could be as much as 417 million Euros in the worst case. The city of Linz will send its financial director, the former state traffic […]
A man from Styria, South-Eastern Austria, caused a deadly car accident in Zagreb, Croatia, last weekend. The 31-year-old man crashed into the car in front so that the trailer became loose. A 50-year-old Polish man died and the Styrian was charged. According to the Croatian police, the accident happened at the A1 traffic node Gospic […]
Several streets of Vienna will be rehabilitated during the Easter Holidays. The construction site at Wiedner Gürtel was opened yesterday (Mon). There will be traffic obstructions in the next few days. Construction works started at Wiedner Gürtel (Argentinierstrasse) in the direction of Matzleinsdorfer Platz. There will be only one lane for a week; however, the […]