The first long weekend after the coronavirus loosening is waiting for Ascension Day for Germany. The ADAC warns of traffic jams – and a danger.
- Christ Ascension could for one Travel boom care in Germany.
- The ADAC warns of traffic jam on several Highways all over Germany and names exact peak times.
- Meanwhile, one should Corona virus peculiarity create a hazard on Sundays and public holidays.
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Dortmund – Christ Ascension is a in all federal states holiday. Because the day falls on a Thursday (May 21) every year, many use it for a long time weekend. For many, the desire for an everyday escape is like that Corona loosening especially high anyway – which again Traffic jams on the highways, reports RUHR24.de. *
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Munich |
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Dr. August Markl |
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Hans Cartographer |
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The ADAC warns for the days between May 20th and 24th and indicates a corona-related Peculiarity this year. Because drivers have to reckon with the fact that they are open on public holidays and also on Sundays truck to meet. “The usual ban on Sundays and public holidays for trucks is during the Corona crisis canceled “, it says from Automobile club.
Ascension Day: ADAC warns of traffic jam
That it gets as full as on “normal” Ascension weekendstraffic experts don’t believe. In the metropolitan areas, full streets can still be expected. And then there are the 670 throughout Germany construction sitesthat slow down the flow of traffic.
On the following highways the ADAC with the greatest risk of congestion:
- A1: Cologne – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck
- A2: Berlin – Hanover – Dortmund
- A3: Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg
- A4: Kirchheim triangle – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden
- A5: Hattenbach triangle – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe
- A6: Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg
- A7: Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen / Reutte
- A7: Hamburg – Flensburg
- A8: Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
- A9: Munich – Nuremberg – Berlin
- A95 /B2: Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Major roads to and from coast
- Metropolitan areas Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich
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During Ascension Day (here you can find out the meaning of the holiday) * is only on Thursday ADAC already one day in advance, i.e. on Wednesday (May 20) with the first Traffic jam peaks. Between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., watch out for the traffic jam hot spots.
Ascension Day: Several federal states are free of school
Important to know: in the federal states Berlin, Bremen, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia is the day after the holiday, Friday (May 22) officially free of school. It is quite possible that there will be a lot of traffic towards the tourist strongholds on this day. The first vacation spots on the North and Baltic Seas are slowly opening up again after the corona lockdown. *
But: It should be loud on all four days of the long weekend on Friday ADAC calmest on the Major roads will.
Corona virus: Worldwide travel warning also applies to Ascension
Because for all unnecessary, tourist to travel abroad until the middle of June 2020 Foreign travel warning worldwide applies, the Germans will Christ Ascension for the most part do not exceed the external borders. Means: Make millions of Germans vacation and trips in domestic holiday regions – even if the borders are currently only checked sporadically.
There are also regional peculiarities: Motorists are out on the road this weekend Hamburg and Saxony-Anhalt. In Hamburg the holidays end, in Saxony-Anhalt they last another week.
During the Corona crisis, trucks are also allowed to drive on Sundays and public holidays – which increases the risk of traffic jams on the Ascension weekend.
© Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
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Great danger for traffic jam is not only available for travel to the corresponding holiday regions, but also on Sunday (May 24th), the Departure. Between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. ADAC the highest traffic.
* RUHR24.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
List of rubric lists: © Philip Ruopp / dpa, Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa; Collage: RUHR24.de
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