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In the future train drivers car drivers and visitors to the Infowelt will see on the construction sites of the Semmering Base Tunnel the various levels on which the large-scale project is networking people space nature and technology a colorful eye-catcher in the construction site landscape.More than 2000 m of space are now being used on the construction sites in Gloggnitz Gostritz Froschnitzgraben Grautschenhof and Mrzzuschlag in order to highlight the connecting function of the Semmering Base Tunnel. The banners can be seen both from the train and from the street but they can also be admired from the information views of the Semmering Base Tunnel information world and illustrate the relevance of the major project.The Semmering Base Tunnel as a connecting elementAs a link between Vienna Lower Austria and Styria the Semmering Base Tunnel reduces the travel time between the two cities of Vienna and Graz to less than two hours. But the Semmering Base Tunnel not only creates a connection between Lower Austria and Styria. The tunnel connects Austria and the world city and country history and future but also technology and nature. There is more information at oebb.atsemmering-verbindet.Semmering base tunnelThe approximately 27 km long Semmering Base Tunnel between Gloggnitz and Mrzzuschlag brings better travel quality for passengers and significantly increases the efficiency of rail freight transport. From 2027 passengers will travel environmentally friendly and safe by train from Vienna to Graz in less than two hours. From this point on freight traffic will also be carried out energy-efficiently on the new route. What has previously been available on the western route with attractive travel times and frequent train intervals will soon also be implemented on the southern route. Thanks to the Semmering Base Tunnel rail is now also competitive on the north-south connection between Austria and cars and trucks.The southern route The future of traveling and transportBB-Infrastruktur AG is currently working on more than 100 large and small projects along the southern route part of the Baltic-Adriatic corridor. 200 kilometers of railway line are being modernized and 170 kilometers are being built. 80 km of new tunnels and 150 new bridges built. Over 5000 people are working on it. Once the projects have been completed the trains will rush from Vienna to Klagenfurt in 2 hours 40 minutes and from Graz to Klagenfurt in 45 minutes. You pass many new train stations over a total of 470 km and cross two mountains at high speeds - the Semmering and the Koralpe. The southern route project includes the expansion of the northern line the expansion of Vienna-Bratislava the new Vienna Central Station the Vienna South freight center the expansion of the Pottendorfer line the construction of the Semmering base tunnel eight modernized train stations on the way from Bruck to Graz the modernized Graz main train station and 130 kilometers of new Koralmbahn. Together they create the conditions for future-oriented passenger and freight transport.
