As of: 07/25/2022 4:04 p.m
From the weekend onwards, summer holidays will be in all federal states. At the peak of the travel wave, vacationers have to be patient. The ADAC expects a particularly large number of long traffic jams – and advises alternative travel dates.
The ADAC expects a particularly large number of long traffic jams next weekend with the start of the summer holidays in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The motorists were facing “one of the worst traffic jam weekends of the season,” the automobile club warned.
Numerous delays also threatened due to the second wave of travel from Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and the south of the Netherlands. In addition, many travelers from Scandinavia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are on their way home again because school will soon be starting again there.
School holidays in all federal states
Peak times are Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. “If you don’t want to be stuck in a permanent traffic jam, you should think about an alternative travel date during the week, for example Tuesday or Wednesday.” The wave of travel is now reaching its peak, with school holidays in all federal states.
The usual traffic jams within Germany to the North and Baltic Seas or in the mountains are particularly affected. In the direction of foreign countries, it is the routes towards Italy, Croatia or the coasts of France.
“On the Tauern, Fernpass, Arlberg, Rhine Valley, Brenner, Karawanken and Gotthard routes as well as the trunk roads to and from the Italian, French and Croatian coasts, the column will come to a standstill in sections,” said the automobile club .
Border crossings particularly at risk of congestion
In Austria, another special feature is that additional traffic volume is to be expected along the Inntal, Tauern and Brenner autobahns due to the blocking of alternative routes.
Waiting times of at least 60 minutes should be planned at the borders, especially to Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Turkey and back. The motorway border crossings Suben (A3 Linz-Passau), Walserberg (A8 Salzburg-Munich) and Kiefersfelden (A93 Kufstein-Rosenheim) are particularly at risk of congestion.