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ADAC in NRW: low traffic on New Year’s Eve, busiest on 1.1.

At the end of the year it is quiet on the highways in NRW, but the new year should be busier.

ADAC in NRW calculates at the turn of the year with little traffic on the highways. “Only on New Year’s Day in the afternoon the streets will be crowded,” says ADAC traffic expert Prof. Dr. Sutold Romano. “Many people start work again on Monday and then come home from a Christmas break or a short New Year’s trip.”

The club goes on the last days of the year and on New Year’s Eve from a few traffic jams on the highways. Due to the holiday season, commuter traffic is limited. Also, over the New Years weekend, there are hardly any weekend construction sites leading to closures or bottlenecks. New Year’s Eve is usually one of the least congested days of the year; in the last three years there have never been more than 30 kilometers of traffic jams on this date.

On New Year’s Day, other parts of Germany are likely to be significantly busier than in NRW. Long-distance travel routes near the Alps are suffering the most, and holidays are also ending in Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Thuringia. ADAC predicts that there will be no long traffic jams.

These are the most important traffic jams in Germany (in both directions):
• A 1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg
• A 2 Dortmund – Hanover – Braunschweig – Berlin
• A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau
• A 4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Dresden
• At 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Karlsruhe
• At 6 Heilbronn – Nuremberg
• A 7 Hamburg – Hannover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte
• A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
• A 9 Munich – Nuremberg
• A ring of 10 Berliners
• A 24 Hamburg – Berlin
• A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
• A 81 Stuttgart – Singen
• A 93 Inntal Triangle – Kufstein
• A 95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• A 99 Monaco ring road

On long-distance roads to winter sports areas, including the Tauern, Brenner and Gotthard motorways, a little more driving time should be expected. There are waiting times at the borders. Controls focus on the main border crossings on the highways.

Current information Motorists can inform themselves about the situation on construction sites in NRW and throughout Germany at https://www.adac.de/reise_freizeit/verkehr/baustellen.

An individual congestion forecast with information about the exact time and day, drivers can use the ADAC route planner at http://maps.adac.de (button “Traffic situation in real time”). The planned departure time can be set with the time controller. Traffic forecasts for the desired route can be obtained using the zoom function on the map.

ADAC roadside assistance: ADAC also provides roadside assistance for injured members on New Year’s Eve. Traffic Patrol drivers are still on duty in NRW and throughout Germany. ADAC Roadside Assistance can be reached by phone on 089 20 20 4000, via the free Roadside Assistance app or at www.adac.de/hilfe.

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