The Christmas holidays in Hesse begin.
Many drivers meet on the autobahn on their way to their winter vacation or to a home visit.
The result is long traffic jams.
Frankfurt – Hessen is in the Christmas holidays.
After the last day of school this year, many families are looking forward to the holidays around the holidays.
But that also means that the motorways to the holiday regions are crowded.
At the beginning of the Christmas holidays, drivers in Hesse have to be prepared for considerable traffic delays.
Many main travel routes such as the A3 and the A5 are likely to reach their capacity limits, especially on Thursday (December 22) and Friday (December 23), as the ADAC Hessen-Thuringia announced.
On these days, travel, commuter traffic and Christmas shoppers in city centers caused a lot of traffic, reports fnp.de.
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Traffic jams on the A5 can hardly be avoided on the way to Christmas vacation.
(archive photo)
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Christmas holidays in Hesse: ADAC expects a lot of traffic on two days
After the quieter Christmas holidays, the ADAC expects more traffic on the highways through Hesse again from Monday afternoon (December 26).
After the day before Christmas Eve, Boxing Day is said to be the worst congestion day during the Christmas holidays.
“On this day, many Christmas vacationers return home from visiting relatives and families.
The volume of traffic will not be quite as heavy as at the beginning of the Christmas weekend," said the ADAC.
A particularly high volume of traffic must be expected on these routes in Hesse in the coming days:
A3
Cologne - Frankfurt - Offenbach - Nuremberg - Passau
A4
Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Dresden
A5
Hattenbacher Dreieck - Giessen - Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Karlsruhe
A7
Hamburg - Kassel - Hattenbacher Dreieck - Füssen/Reutte
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With the end of the last lesson on Wednesday, the streets are getting busier.
© ADAC Hessen-Thuringia
On two motorways through Hesse, drivers on the way to vacation or to visit family must observe closures:
A45 Gießen towards Hagen
between Lüdenscheid and Lüdenscheid-Nord until further notice
A66 Wiesbaden – Frankfurt
in both directions between Wiesbaden-Biebrich and Wiesbaden-Mainzer Straße until further notice
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List of rubrics: © Philipp Weitzel/dpa