Christmas: traffic jams threaten – when you should drive according to ADAC

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Berlin. Die Christmas Days are getting closer and, like every year, many people get into their cars to visit their loved ones or to the vacation to drive. This can lead to major traffic jams German roads come. Where and when with particularly long waiting times to be expected for motorists.

Christmas without traffic jams is almost unthinkable. Around prepare driversthe ADAC has one in advance congestion forecast released. When is the best time to drive.

Christmas: This is the traffic jam forecast

During the holidays, the German autobahns are getting crowded. This year, the first federal states will go into the Christmas holidays. Until December 24th, all federal states will have a one to two week vacation.

Especially on Thursday afternoon December 22, and Friday, December 23, according to the ADAC, the roads will reach their capacity limits. “On both days, travel meets commuter traffic,” according to the traffic club. On Christmas Eve, December 24th, the streets should be quieter again. On Sunday, December 25th, things will also be relaxed on the motorways.

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Traffic jam on Boxing Day

on the second day of Christmas December 26th, it will then become more restless on the German autobahns. On the Monday, many return from Christmas vacations or family visits. “But the volume of traffic will not be quite as heavy as at the beginning of the Christmas weekend,” predicts the ADAC.

The traffic too ski resorts in the Alpine countries this year is a little less than in the pre-Corona times. “Ski holidays are significantly more expensive than in previous years. Among other things, not a few ski areas because of the general energy crisis raised their prices,” writes the ADAC on its website. Drivers should take part in this longer driving times due to black ice or heavy traffic calculate.

Danger of traffic jams: These motorways are affected

Except for the big rooms Hamburg, BerlinCologne, Frankfurt and München other highways are also special risk of traffic jams. Waiting times are to be expected in both directions on these roads:

• A 1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg
• A 2 Dortmund – Hanover – Braunschweig – Berlin
• A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau
• A 4 Kirchheim triangle – Erfurt – Dresden
• A 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Karlsruhe
• A 6 Heilbronn – Nürnberg
• A 7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte
• A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
• A 9 Munich – Nuremberg – Berlin
• A 10 Berliner Ring
• A 24 Hamburg – Berlin
• A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
• A 81 Stuttgart – singing
• A 93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
• A 95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• A 99 Bypass Munich

Danger of traffic jams on the way abroad

Traffic jams should also be expected on the way abroad. Especially on the typical winter routes. In Austria These include the Tauern, Inntal and Brenner autobahns, the Fernpass route and the Tyrolean, Salzburg and Vorarlberg federal roads.

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In the Switzerland longer waiting times should be expected on the Gotthard route, the access roads to the ski areas of Graubünden, the Bernese Oberland, Valais and Central Switzerland and at the car loading stations Furka, Lötschberg and Vereina.

who after Italy could encounter traffic jams on the Brenner route and the roads to the Puster, Gardena and Badia valleys and to the Vinschgau. (ari)