Are you about to book your holiday in Brixental Valley, or have you already booked? Then you have to know how to plan your journey to get here. We have compiled the following valuable and important information for you that ought to help. But one thing: The holiday region in the centre of the Kitzbühel Alps has fantastic transport links. This makes getting here in your own car very easy. There are no mountain passes, serpentines or narrow valley heads. Even getting here by train is easy and straightforward. Anyone who would like to continue on their journey can even travel by plane. Three key, international airports are in the direct catchment area of Brixental Valley.
Brixental Valley is one of the first valleys after the German-Austrian border of Kufstein / Kiefersfelden. Gentle, extensive grassy mountains of between 800m and 2440m altitude shape the landscape. There are no narrow dams, twisty serpentines or steep mountain passes on the route to the holiday region. For that reason travel to Brixen im Thale, Kirchberg and Westendorf is possible easy and straightforward.
It only takes around half an hour in your own car from the border crossing area to get to one of the best known and biggest ski and hiking areas. The links to the motorway and state road network is ideal. In spite of that, the three towns are situated away from any through traffic. This means you can be certain of enjoying your well-deserved "holiday rest".
A specific train line through Brixental Valley which even has its own local train stations for Brixen im Thale, Kirchberg and Westendorf provides the ideal setting for convenient travel by train. Thanks to international train connections and as important, national link routes between east and west Austria, you can look forward to lots of attractive connections. Regional trains operate almost on a hourly basis through Brixental.
It is also possible to travel by plane to the Kitzbühel Alps - easy and fast. There are three international key airports within a two hour drive’s distance. Innsbruck airport provides attractive flight connections and is just 75 kilometres from Brixental. The two international airports of Salzburg (100 kilometres) and Munich (120 kilometres) provide almost daily attractive links to the rest of the world. Thanks to the region’s own airport shuttle service onward travel to Brixental Valley is child's play.
After more than 55 years of operation, the Lueg Bridge on the A13 Brenner motorway has reached the end of its useful life.
In order to ensure road safety and to relieve the strain on the bridge, from 1 January 2025 only one lane of traffic will be allowed in each direction. In order to avoid long delays and congestion on particularly busy days with high levels of passenger and freight traffic, a temporary dual carriageway with special traffic management will be set up on these days. This will ensure that the regions north and south of the Brenner Pass are easily accessible at all times.
All these measures will ensure that the existing bridge can continue to operate safely until it is replaced by a new structure. Construction of the new Lueg Bridge is scheduled to start in spring 2025, subject to all necessary permits.
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