The opening of the Felbertauern Road (1967) and the Tauern Motorway (1975) throttled traffic by nearly 15 per cent, but it also permanently changed the character of the Großglockner High Alpine Road: from the only transalpine road over the main alpine crest between the Brenner Pass and the Katschberg Pass, to an excursion road from a catchment area with a radius of around .