At the start of the second autumn vacation weekend in North Rhine-Westphalia, drivers have to be very patient.
"Especially around Cologne it has become really full again," said a spokesman for the ADAC Nordrhein on Friday afternoon about the situation on the motorways.
In addition to the normal rush-hour traffic, vacationers would also come.
According to the WDR traffic situation, it jammed around 15.
Düsseldorf - 45 o'clock on around 307 kilometers.
According to ADAC, the highways of North Rhine-Westphalia can also be full on Saturday and Sunday: Lower Saxony, a neighboring country, will start the autumn holidays on Friday.
Especially in the greater Cologne area and in the Ruhr area around the A 40, a lot of traffic can be expected again.
With a view to the past holiday weekend, however, the great chaos could not materialize, said the ADAC spokesman.
Last Saturday, for example, there were not an unusually large number of drivers on the road.
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So far, the major travel chaos has not materialized at Düsseldorf Airport either.
For the passengers, the processes have largely run smoothly so far, said a spokesman.
The airport is expecting 141,000 passengers on the second weekend in autumn.
A total of around 765,000 travelers are expected during the holidays from October 9 to October 24.
However, there could be longer waiting times at the check-ins or security checks, especially at peak times such as the early hours of the morning.
A spokeswoman for Cologne / Bonn Airport said: "We are expecting a slightly lower number of passengers this weekend than at the beginning of the autumn vacation".
The airport is expecting most holidaymakers this Sunday.
On Friday afternoon, operations have been "relatively normal" so far.
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