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Traffic jams - like here on the A1 near Hamburg - should be rather rare at the turn of the year, according to ADAC
Photo: Markus Scholz / dpa
The end of the holiday, winter sports season, New Year's Eve visits to friends and relatives, plus winter weather conditions - the last days of December and the first days in January have often been accompanied by traffic jams and slow traffic on Germany's roads in the past.
But because of the pandemic, the situation could become more relaxed this year.
Due to the Corona restrictions, the General German Automobile Club (ADAC) expects quiet traffic on the highways around the turn of the year and in the first week of January.
Unlike in the years before the pandemic, fewer people are likely to be in the winter sports areas, the club said.
The ADAC assumes that many people will spend the New Year at home.
This day is traditionally one of the quietest of the year anyway.
No major traffic disruptions are to be expected at the end of the holiday, it said.
In contrast to the Christmas days, the dates have been straightened out here.
In the first federal states, school starts again immediately after the New Year or on the days after.
In many federal states, however, students have until the second weekend in January off.
fek / dpa / AFP
