!!!Arlbergstraßentunnel

Arlberg Road Tunnel, at 13,972 m the longest tunnel in Austria, 
part of the toll road operated by  Alpen Strassen AG, in the ASFINAG 
Group, between Langen (Vorarlberg) and St. Anton (Tyrol) on the 
Arlberg-Schnellstrasse road (S 16). The tunnel was built between 
July 1974 and December 1978 at a cost of ATS 4 bn. It is designed 
to accommodate 1800 vehicles per hour and equipped with 4 main 
ventilation units (one of the shafts is the deepest in Europe at 
736 m), 12 ventilators, a continuous adjustable lighting strip, 
43 video cameras for monitoring traffic, emergency telephones at 
212 m intervals and 16 storage niches. In 1998 2.06 million 
vehicles travelled on the tunnel toll road, 18.4% of which was 
commercial transport.


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