• Gamechanger@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    It was built to transport cargo through the Alps to reduce the amount of heavy trucks. Germany refuses to build their part of this project, there is not enough infrastructure to load the cargo and there is no economic incentive to do so. At least the tunnel is built, maybe it will be used to its potential sometimes in the (far) future…

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      2 days ago

      Tirol is pretty tired of the trucks and I assume the tolls will rise sharply once the tunnel is ready. This will hopefully create the necessary economic incentives for Germany to built the infrastructure.