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For many, the coming weekend begins on Wednesday afternoon. This creates a lot of traffic and congestion.

Long weekend

For many, the coming weekend begins on Wednesday afternoon. This creates a lot of traffic and congestion.

(dpa/tmn/jt) – Lots of traffic and traffic jams – everyone who wants to be on the motorway between Wednesday (May 25) and Sunday (May 29) has to be prepared for this. Traffic clubs like the Auto Club Europa (ACE) and the ADAC draw attention to this.

Many combine the public holiday (Ascension Day) on Thursday with a bridging day on Friday to create a long weekend. In some German federal states there is also no school on Friday.


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The car clubs are already assuming that there will be a lot of traffic throughout Germany on Wednesday afternoon until the evening hours. This applies to routes around metropolitan areas and on trunk roads to the south and to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas. On Thursday, also known as Father’s Day in some places, there should only be “moderate traffic” on the trunk roads, according to the ACE.

In France calculates the information service smart one among other things, on the A10 motorway between the greater Paris area and Bordeaux with traffic jams. There will also be a lot going on on the routes from Lyon towards the Mediterranean coast on Wednesday and Thursday.

Friday is more travel-friendly, at least on the German autobahns. According to the ADAC, there are currently more than 1,000 construction sites, but there is always a chance of losing time.

This also applies to a greater extent on Saturday, when a higher volume of travel is expected again. The clubs expect another peak in terms of traffic jams in the course of the return journey on the motorways on Sunday afternoon. When the weather is nice, there are also many day trippers on the secondary routes.

Traffic jams are to be expected on these routes in Germany

The car clubs consider traffic jams and delays to be possible, especially in the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and on the following routes in both directions:

  • A 1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck
  • A 2 Berlin – Hannover – Dortmund
  • A 3 Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt/Main – Würzburg – NurembergA 4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden
  • A 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe A 6 Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg
  • A 7 Flensburg – Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen/Reutte
  • A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
  • A 9 Nuremberg – Munich A 10 Berlin Ring
  • A 45 Olpe – Hagen
  • A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
  • A 81 Heilbronn – Stuttgart – Singen
  • A 93 Rosenheim – Kiefersfelden
  • A 95/B2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • A 96 crossing Memmingen A 99 bypass Munich

The traffic situation in the Switzerland and in Austria take. The Tauern, Fernpass, Brenner, Rheintal and Gotthard routes are at risk of congestion. According to ACE, traffic jams in front of the Gotthard tunnel can already occur on the latter from Wednesday afternoon.

It also gets tight at access roads in leisure regions. The ADAC in Austria cites the Carinthian lakes, the Salzkammergut and Lake Neusiedl as examples. For Switzerland, the recreational areas of the cantons of Ticino and Valais are mentioned.

Some Alpine passes still closed

Anyone planning an Alpine road tour should be aware that some passes are currently still closed. The last passes will be released in June. Random checks cannot be ruled out in border traffic. However, due to the easing of entry regulations in many countries, things are progressing much faster than a few weeks ago, according to the ADAC.

How long do you currently have to wait when returning from Austria to Germany? can be seen online at the Austrian infrastructure company Asfinag.

Travelers should inform themselves about the applicable corona rules. Information on the current requirements inside and outside of Germany is available from ACE and ADAC as well as from the Federal Foreign Office.

Current traffic reports on wort.lu

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