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The times without traffic jams are over. For example, motorists will have to be prepared for rainy traffic again this weekend.
According to the forecast of the Autoclubs ACE and ADAC, the Ascension Day holiday ensures this. Due to the bridge day on Friday, one or the other will use it for an extended weekend. This applies particularly to the federal states of Berlin, Bremen, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. Here is officially free of school on Friday.
The ACE expects slightly more traffic than the previous weeks, but expects a moderate congestion overall. The ADAC classifies the highways around the metropolitan areas and the construction sites in phases as “very congested”, although it should be less busy compared to previous years. Many motorists are likely to be drawn to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas as well as to the recreational and holiday regions.
Commuters crowd the streets on Wednesday
On Wednesday afternoons between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. commuters crowd the slopes. While it is relatively quiet on Friday, heavier return travel traffic is likely to roll on Sunday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. If you want to start longer trips, you should definitely get up-to-date information about travel options or restrictions, advises the ACE.
In addition to the routes to and from the German coasts and the motorways around the Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich metropolitan areas, traffic jams are most likely to occur on the following routes.
A 1 Cologne – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck
A 2 Berlin – Hanover – Dortmund
A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg
A 4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden
A 5 Hattenbach triangle – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe
A 6 Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg
A 7 Hamburg – Flensburg and Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen / Reutte
A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
A 9 Munich – Nuremberg – Berlin
A 93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
A 11 Berlin – Kreuz Uckermark – Stettin
Even though controls at the German borders have gradually been eased again since mid-May, one has to be prepared for random controls at the transitions between Austria and Germany. Accordingly, one should expect somewhat longer waiting times here. If you want to find out more about the traffic jams on the German motorways, you should use the traffic jam detector in the car gazette. (AG / dpa)
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