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Return wave on Whit Monday: where it could get crowded on roads and trains
At the end of the long Pentecost weekend, most of those taking a short vacation want to return home by train or their own car. A strong return wave is therefore expected this Monday both on the coasts and inland. The regional trains, which can be used with the 9-euro ticket that has been in force since June 1, are likely to be particularly busy.
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Trains on the island of Usedom, for example, were already heavily loaded in the late morning, according to the “Ostsee-Zeitung“. A spokesman for the railway warned in the morning: “We recommend our passengers to find out more information shortly before starting their journey in the information media of the local transport associations or via the DB Navigator,” the “OZ” quotes him as saying. But also on Rügen and the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula, tens of thousands of holidaymakers spent the Pentecost festival: “Everything that is up to the beach must finally go down again,” said a DB spokeswoman – it will probably be most crowded against Afternoon.
In Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, brisk travel also ensures full trains again. As expected, there was a lot going on, especially from the islands and coasts to the south, said a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn in the morning. For a typical return day, however, this is nothing special. “Of course it’s full, but everything is going well so far,” said the spokeswoman. The biggest wave of travel is expected in the afternoon.
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There is a risk of traffic jams on these motorways near the Baltic Sea
The highway police do not anticipate an increase in traffic on the highways until noon. According to the officials and the ADAC, things should get tight here near the Baltic Sea:
- Construction sites on Autobahn 20
- the Trebeltal bridge near Tribsees and the section near Kröpelin that is closed on one side
- the A 24 near Neustadt-Glewe
- at the Wismar (A 20/A 14), Rostock (A 20/A 19) and Schwerin (A 14/A 24) motorway junctions
- on the A 24 between Kreuz Wittstock and Berlin
- Connections to the islands of Rügen via the federal highway 96 and the island of Usedom via the bridges in Wolgast (B 111) and Zecherin (B 110)
- Disabilities are to be expected at the Meiningen Bridge near Barth
Experts expect a high volume of traffic here on Whit Monday
The ADAC North Rhine had already announced before the weekend that massive traffic disruptions are also to be expected on the NRW motorways on Monday afternoon. Many short vacationers from the most populous federal state drove their car in the direction of the German North and Baltic Sea coasts and the Netherlands – and on Monday they have to go back home.
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According to the ADAC overview, the frequent traffic jams in NRW include the A 1 (Cologne – Dortmund – Osnabrück), A 3 (Cologne – Oberhausen – Emmerich – Arnhem) and A 4 (Greater Aachen/Cologne Ring area) as well as the A 40 (Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Venlo) and the A 46 (Düsseldorf – Wuppertal).
According to the ADAC, motorways with a particularly high risk of traffic jams throughout Germany are also the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, A 1/A 3/A 4 Kölner Ring, A 1 (Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Lübeck), A 2 (Dortmund – Hanover – Berlin), A 3 (Oberhausen – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau), A 4 (Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Dresden), A 5 (Hattenbacher Dreieck – Frankfurt – Karlsruhe – Basel), A 6 (Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg), A 7 (Hamburg – Flensburg), A 7 (Hamburg – Hanover – Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte, A 8 (Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg), A 9 (Munich – Nuremberg – Berlin) , A 10 (Berliner Ring), A 11 (Berliner Ring – Uckermark triangle), A 19 (Wittstock/Dosse – Rostock triangle), A 24 (Berlin – Wittstock/Dosse triangle), A 61 (Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen), A 81 (Stuttgart – Singen), A 93 (Inntal triangle – Kufstein), A 95/B 2 (Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen), A 99 (Munich ring road).
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