Everyone is on vacation
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A congested travel weekend is imminent
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The summer holidays bring a lot of vehicles onto the highways across the country. The ADAC expects numerous traffic jams in the next few days. Photo: Markus Scholz / Archive / dpa
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Berlin / Munich The last federal states start into the summer holidays, elsewhere they are already coming to an end. Motorists can expect one of the busiest weekends of the travel season. It gets particularly tight here.
The volume of traffic is increasing throughout Germany. No wonder, it is now travel time in all federal states without exception. In the far north it comes to an end this weekend, in the south it is only now beginning. ADAC and Auto Club Europa (ACE) therefore expect the streets to be full, even if there is still reluctance to travel due to corona.
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According to the ADAC, there is a trend towards short breaks and, above all, day trips. It will therefore probably get full on the access roads to the lakes, the hiking areas of the Alps and the low mountain ranges. When travel and excursion traffic meet, things can get tight.
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On the routes to the south and along the German coasts, it gets full on Fridays, especially between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., announced the ACE. On Saturday, the traffic jam rolls mainly between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and return traffic starts at noon. On Sundays there is a risk of heavy traffic jams from around 2 p.m., also on the access roads back to the metropolitan areas.
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At least in July and August, trucks are not allowed to drive on Saturdays between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and on Sundays the general truck driving ban between 0 a.m. and 10 p.m. applies again. If you can, it is better to travel counter-cyclically, that is: very early in the morning or later in the evening, but preferably in the middle of the week.
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There are occasional closures, also as a result of the storm, current information is provided by, for example ADAC online. Around the greater Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Main, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, routes to and from the North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as on the following sections, the car clubs expect delays and traffic jams this weekend (mostly in both directions):
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