The Pyhrnautobahn ('Pyhrn Motorway') is an Autobahn (motorway), in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. It runs through Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

 by 2 two-lane tunnel

Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...

s: the 5400 metres (17,716.5 ft) long Bosrucktunnel and the 8320 metres (27,296.6 ft) long Gleinalmtunnel. The longest tunnel on the motorway is the 10 kilometres (6 mi) long Plabutschtunnel

Plabutsch tunnel

The Plabutsch Tunnel is an approximately 10 km long road tunnel west side of Graz, Austria....

 under Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

 and its outskirts.

The last section of the highway was built in 2004. Some parts still have only a single roadway, including some tunnels.

The motorway south of the A2 interchange is a part of the Pan-European corridor Xa.

External links

• Exit list of A9