AR-News: (UK) Austrian traffic paralysed in environment protest

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

07 April 2004 

Demonstrators blocked key motorway links between Germany and Italy through 
the Austrian Alps Wednesday for a third day in protest against the threat of 
pollution caused by new EU relaxations on truck traffic. 
Two motorways were paralysed with long tailbacks of vehicles through the 
Inntal Valley in western Tyrol and the Tauern between Salzburg and Upper Austria, 
a motoring association spokesman said. 
"Several hundred demonstrators blocked vehicles for kilometres in the Inntal 
near Innsbruck and in both directions of the Tauern tunnel," he said. 
Trucks were expected to be trapped in the Inntal until early Thursday because 
the demonstration was followed by a local ban on night motorway, he added. 
Environmentalists sent a manifesto to relevant ministries in EU member 
countries Wendesday calling for wider erstrictions on night traffic and for plans 
for new highways to be curtailed. 


full story:

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040407183528.8qmmjyay 
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