The traffic jams on the Bavarian motorways during the summer holidays totalled more than 20,000 kilometres – that is more than last year. The ADAC reported that it counted 20,166 kilometres of traffic jams and congested traffic between the last weekend in July and the end of the holidays on September 9th.
Most of the traffic jams occurred on the first weekend of the holidays, when all other federal states were also on holiday. The ADAC recorded 2,252 kilometers of traffic jams that weekend. There were 2,727 traffic jams on Autobahn 8 in southern Bavaria during the summer holidays – this route leads to the popular holiday destinations of Austria, Italy and Croatia.
The car is still a very popular means of travel. “We do notice that our calls for countercyclical driving are bearing fruit and are leading to some relief on the roads. However, the volume of traffic on the Bavarian motorways remains consistently high.” When there is heavy traffic, traffic jams are inevitable. It doesn’t even take an accident for this to happen. “Even the smallest disruptive factors such as careless merging or a broken-down vehicle on the hard shoulder can lead to a traffic jam,” said ADAC expert Alexander Kreipl, according to the statement.
The ADAC has already warned that things are unlikely to improve in terms of traffic jams in the coming year: Construction work on the Lueg Bridge at the Brenner will create a bottleneck in traffic. “Anyone who wants to cross the Brenner next summer will have to prepare for significant delays. We are also assuming that we will also have more traffic jams on the Bavarian motorways due to travellers who decide to holiday in Bavaria instead,” said Kreipl.