Easter on the Autobahn: How to avoid the biggest traffic jams
Created: 04/14/2022Updated: 04/14/2022, 19:08
By: Yasina Hipp
Many like to use the days off over Easter for short vacations or family visits.
The ADAC now draws attention to particularly busy roads and popular travel days.
Munich - Spring-like temperatures and a long weekend: The Easter holidays* are ideal for a little trip away from everyday life or for family visits.
After two years of the corona pandemic and therefore limited travel options, it's finally that time again this year.
The annual wave of travel at Easter, which was normal before the pandemic, is now due again in 2022 - but it is only slowly rolling in, as the ADAC* reports.
Although there are also school holidays in all federal states except Hamburg, there were no longer traffic jams on Maundy Thursday until the afternoon, as a spokesman for the automobile club reports.
However, that could still change.
Traffic jams at Easter: Most people are on the road on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday
Maundy Thursday is actually one of the busiest days of the year.
In the afternoon there were also waiting times, for example on the A8 from Munich towards Salzburg, at the Hanauer Kreuz near Frankfurt, on the A4 north of Dresden, in the Berlin area or near Hamburg.
However, the volume of traffic jams has not reached the extent of before the corona pandemic*.
Because of high fuel prices and fears of the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine, longer vacation trips could become rarer, the ADAC suspects.
"However, this will hardly affect visiting relatives, short trips and excursions into the surrounding area when the weather is nice."
Good Friday is also a popular travel day, but the ADAC expects the roads to be full again on Easter Monday.
As a tip, the automobile club refers to Saturday or Easter Sunday: “Those who are flexible in terms of time have a good chance of driving without traffic jams on these days.” According to ADAC information, the following roads could be particularly crowded on Easter days:
Greater Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart areas
A1 Cologne - Dortmund - Bremen - Hamburg
A1/A3/A4 Cologne Ring
A2 Oberhausen - Dortmund - Hanover - Brunswick
A3 Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Passau
A5 Frankfurt - Karlsruhe - Basel
A6 Mannheim - Heilbronn - Nuremberg
A7 Hanover - Flensburg and Würzburg - Ulm - Füssen/Reutte
A8 Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Munich - Salzburg
A9 Munich – Nuremberg
A10 Berlin Ring
A24 Hamburg-Berlin
A61 Mönchengladbach - Koblenz - Ludwigshafen
A81 Stuttgart - Singen
A93 Kufstein – Inntal triangle
A95/B2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
A99 bypass Munich
You can find out what it looks like on Bavaria’s roads here*.
Traffic at Easter: Bahn is preparing for many travelers
It's not just on the streets that there is a lot of hustle and bustle around the Easter holidays.
"People want to travel, they want to take the train again," says DB long-distance manager Michael Peterson.
The average utilization of Deutsche Bahn* trains is 40 percent, and overall demand is “considerably higher” than in the previous year.
Maundy Thursday and Easter Monday are also the main travel days on the rails.
Until April 24th, 50 special trains will be in use on connections that are in high demand and more staff will ensure that everything runs smoothly during the Easter days.
And also in the air, the travel volume of the Easter wave is approaching the pre-corona level again, according to Frankfurt Airport.
And a spokeswoman for Stuttgart Airport says: "It's very lively." *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
