The summer holiday season begins: traffic jams and congested roads - it gets particularly tight here
Created: 06/24/2022, 06:48
By: Tom Offinger
With North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous federal state starts the holidays.
This brings a lot of traffic to the motorways, where there is a risk of traffic jams in the coming weeks.
Berlin/Munich - A lot of patience and a cool head - that's what everyone who wants to start their vacation by car in the coming weeks needs.
The ADAC
estimates that the travel summer should be as congested as before Corona
.
The autobahns will already be filling up next weekend (June 24 to 26) when the summer holidays begin in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Summer vacation: traffic jams inevitable in the south
They are joined by travelers regardless of the holiday dates.
Especially when the weather is nice, last-minute holidaymakers and day trippers also come.
Although according to the Auto Club Europa (
ACE
) holiday traffic should be well distributed on the classic routes to the south and to the coasts, heavy travel and a high risk of traffic jams can still be expected.
However, the ADAC
does not expect endless traffic jams at the start of
the season.
Summer holidays at a glance: This is how traffic works at the weekend
Friday:
Commuter traffic jams are to be expected throughout Germany
from midday
, holiday traffic will also be felt in the Rhine-Ruhr area, the
ACE
forecasts .
The busiest times are between 12:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Saturday:
The
classic holiday routes to the south or to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas are
heavily loaded
from the early morning
.
Traffic is likely to be at its highest between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Sunday:
ACE
expects
a lot of excursion traffic
on Sunday,
especially when the weather is nice.
This fills the secondary routes and the routes around the local recreation areas.
Summer holiday traffic jams: counter-cyclical departure can avoid stress
Holiday traffic on the motorways should be noticeable from the morning, although the situation should be more relaxed than on Saturday due to the truck driving ban.
The main travel times are therefore between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Those who can start the holiday trip anti-cyclically, for example on a Tuesday or Wednesday, should be able to get through traffic jam weekends best.
However, if you need Saturday as your travel day, you should start longer journeys in the morning as early as possible.
With a short journey, it can also start in the afternoon or on Sunday.
G7 summit in Elmau: Numerous disabilities in the Bavarian Oberland
According to the car clubs, there is an additional risk of traffic jams due to the G7 summit in Elmau (June 26 to 28).
According to the ADAC
, significant traffic obstructions must be expected here in the Bavarian Oberland between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Mittenwald
.
Even in Munich itself, drivers have to be prepared for numerous restrictions.
On the one hand, large-scale protest actions against the policies of the major industrial nations have been announced, on the other hand, for safety reasons, some tunnels in the inner city area such as the Landshuter-Allee tunnel, the Luise-Kieselbach tunnel, the Trappentreu tunnel and the Petruel tunnel will be temporarily closed (all Restrictions in the Munich city area can be found here in the overview).
According to ACE
, drivers must
expect extensive diversions (from June 23) for through traffic, temporary closures of individual streets and also identity checks in this area.
Summer holiday traffic jams: affected routes at a glance
The car clubs consider traffic jams and delays to be possible, especially in the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Main, Stuttgart, Munich, in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area, on the routes to the coasts and on the following routes, often in both directions:
A1 Cologne - Dortmund - Bremen - Hamburg - Lübeck
A1 /A3 / A4 Cologne Ring
A2 Hanover - Dortmund
A3 Oberhausen - Cologne - Frankfurt/Main - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Passau
A4 Kirchheim triangle - Erfurt - Dresden
A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck - Darmstadt - Karlsruhe - Basel
A6 Mannheim - Heilbronn - Nuremberg
A7 Flensburg - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel - Würzburg - Ulm - Füssen/Reutte
A8 Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Munich - Salzburg
A9 Nuremberg - Munich
A10 Berlin Ring
A24 Hamburg - Berlin
A31 Bottrop - Emden
A45 Olpe - Hagen
A61 Mönchengladbach - Koblenz - Ludwigshafen
A81 Heilbronn - Stuttgart - Singen
A93 Rosenheim - Kiefersfelden
A95/B2 Munich - Garmisch-Partenkirchen
A96 junction Memmingen
A99 bypass Munich
Summer holiday traffic jams: Classic travel routes are particularly at risk
Even on the classic holiday routes in Austria and Switzerland, the destination is unlikely to be reached without traffic jams.
According to the ADAC
, the Tauern, Fernpass, Brenner, Rheintal, Karawanken and Gotthard routes are particularly at risk of congestion
.
For Switzerland, the ACE expects traffic jams, especially in front of the Gotthard tunnel.
If the waiting time is longer than an hour, the alternative route (A 13) via the San Bernardino tunnel is worthwhile.
When crossing the border to Germany, you should be prepared for waiting times due to border controls.
How long you currently have to wait when returning from Austria to Germany can be seen
online at the Austrian infrastructure
company Asfinag .
(
to with dpa
)
