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there were only 154,000 private automobiles, 92,000 motorcycles, and 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of long-distance asphalt roads. Austria had suffered from the catastrophic economic results of losing the First World War, had shrunk to a seventh of its imperial size, lost its international markets
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The Glockner Road also reflects the material advance of the people: in the early years, the motorcycle – as the poor man's car – accounted for up to a quarter of the traffic; 1955 was the highpoint with 47,500 motorcycles (26% of the traffic); in 1968, only 2,071 motorcycles were to be counted. The
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In the years 1936 and 1937, 350 men shovelled 250,000 cubic metres (8,800,000 cu ft) of snow in an average of seventy days to keep at least one lane on the road free. Since 1953, the five Wallack rotary plows, and twelve GROHAG workers, have been clearing 600,000 to 800,000 cubic metres
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Within three years, the economic output dropped by a quarter, and unemployment rate reached 26%. The government then revived the Grossglockner project to give work to 3,200 (from an average of 520,000 jobless). The project was extended to a width of 6 metres (20 ft) to serve the needs of the
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Increasing numbers of visitors made the stage-by-stage modernization of the road necessary after 1953 to a width of 7.5 metres (25 ft), to 15 metres (49 ft) in place of 10-metre (33 ft) bend radius, and 4,000 parking places instead of 800 and an annual capacity of up to 350,000
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Even the modest design of a 3-metre (9.8 ft) gravel road, with overtaking points, appeared too expensive. The impulse for building a road, which was meant to open up the barren alpine valleys to motorized tourism, was given by the
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A panoramic view of Grossglockner High Alpine Road, close to Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe (The road descends across the left peak, passing the center buildings, and winding back downhill at the end of the lake, to follow along the right
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In 1937, the road could only be traversed for 132 days, but in 1963 the road could be traversed for 276 days. The Grossglockner High Alpine Road is normally open from the beginning of May to the end of October.
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it took until 1952 before the pre-war record was surpassed with 412,000 visitors and 91,000 vehicles. In 1962, 360,000 vehicles and 1.3 million visitors crossed the pass.
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Planners had reckoned with 120,000 visitors in 1930, but the road's attraction for tourists in 1938 brought 375,000 visitors in 98,000 vehicles. After the
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On 30 August 1930 at 9:30am, the first explosives roared in Ferleiten. Four years later, the moving force of the road building, the
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up to Hochtor Pass, with a 1.5 km (0.93 mi) branch-off from Fuscher Törl at 2,428 m (7,966 ft) to the
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in the northwest. From here the road runs downhill to the southern toll booth near Heiligenblut.
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stock market slump in 1929. This catastrophe shook an impoverished Austria with terrible force.
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to be located outside of Italy. Grossglockner was featured for a second time in
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When, in 1924, a group of Austrian experts presented a plan for a road over the
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car, and achieved the first alpine crossing in an automobile on a graded road.
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in a tunnel and runs southwards passing another branch-off which leads to the
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viewpoint at 2,571 m (8,435 ft). The scenic route crosses the
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910 million (at 1990 rates), around seven million less than estimated.
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Including the building of the access roads, the Glockner Road cost
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provincial head of government Franz Rehrl, and the technician
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at 2,504 m (8,215 ft). The road is named after the
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twice so far. The first time was in the 17th stage of the
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was opened and put into full service a day later with an
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The popular overlook was named after a visit by Emperor
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Valley via the northern toll booth at Ferleiten (near
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on the official website of Zell am See-Kaprun tourism
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The opening of the Felbertauern Road (1967) and the
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Winners of Grossglockner stage at the Giro d'Italia
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