The ADAC is expecting a particularly large number of long traffic jams next weekend with the start of the summer holidays in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg: Drivers can expect “one of the worst traffic jam weekends of the season,” warned the ADAC on Monday in Munich. 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,” advises the automobile club. The wave of travel is now reaching its peak, with school holidays in all federal states. Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria are the last federal states to start. The second wave of travel is coming from Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and the south of the Netherlands. Many holidaymakers from North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where school will soon start again, are on their way home.
According to the ADAC, routes in both directions with particularly high loads will be:
Trunk roads to and from the North and Baltic Seas
Greater Hamburg, Cologne and Munich areas
A1 Lübeck – Bremen – Dortmund – Cologne
A2 Dortmund – Hanover
A3 Passau – Nuremberg – Würzburg – Frankfurt – Cologne – Oberhausen
A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Frankfurt -Karlsruhe – Basel
A6 Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg
A7 Hamburg – Flensburg
A7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen/Reutte
A8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
A9 Halle/Leipzig – Nuremberg – Munich
A10 Berlin Ring
A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
A81 Stuttgart – Singen
A93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein –
A95/B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen –
A96 Munich – Lindau
A99 bypass Munich.
Driving abroad is also sometimes a test of patience. “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.
A special feature in Austria: along the Inntal, Tauern and Brenner autobahns, an additional increase in traffic is to be expected due to the closure of alternative routes. Long waiting times 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.