“Traffic Jams Expected in NRW During 2022 Public Holiday: Tips and Routes to Avoid Congestion”

In the afternoon before the public holiday in 2022, the traffic jams in NRW sometimes totaled almost 400 kilometers. This year, too, most traffic jams are expected on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. when commuters and short vacationers meet.

Experience has shown that many families used the holiday on Thursday for a long weekend with a short break, for example on the North Sea coast.

Traffic jams probably also on Thursday

On the holiday, Thursday, there will probably also be traffic jams when day trippers make their way to local recreation areas when the weather is nice. Then it could also get crowded on federal roads. A lot of traffic is also to be expected on the motorways on Thursday, albeit not as extensively as on Wednesday.

According to the ADAC, in North Rhine-Westphalia the motorways in the greater Cologne area and in the Ruhr area in particular are at risk of congestion at times. Patience is also required on construction sites. With a view to travel destinations on the North Sea and Baltic Sea, the ADAC expects delays on the A1, A2 and A3, among others. On the Cologne ring road (A1/A3/A4), drivers would have to expect traffic jams or slow traffic in sections, it said.

The ADAC sees the greatest risk of congestion for the following routes:

– Trunk roads to and from the coast

– Greater Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich areas

– A1/A3/A4 Cologne Ring

– A1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck

– A2 Oberhausen – Dortmund – Hanover – Berlin

– A3 Emmerich – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg

– A4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden

– A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe

– A6 Heilbronn – Nürnberg

– A7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte

– A7 Hamburg – Flensburg

– A8 Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg – A9 Munich – Nuremberg

– A10 Berliner Ring

– A40 Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Straelen – Venlo

– A43 Wuppertal – Recklinghausen – Munster

– A45 Dortmund – Hagen – Lüdenscheid

– A46 Dusseldorf – Wuppertal

– A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen

– A81 Stuttgart – Singen – A93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein

– A95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen

– A99 Munich ring road