Holiday traffic ADAC expects long traffic jams on Easter weekend
Bonn · Easter travelers should expect traffic congestion and trains that are overfilled. Thursday is expected to be especially heavy. How does it look for the rest of the holidays?
Those going on vacation or taking a day trip, or just making the daily commute, can look forward to the heaviest traffic so far this season. The German automobile association ADAC expects the heaviest traffic in NRW on Thursday between 1pm and 8pm. Then on Monday, April 2, one should expect heavy traffic between 1pm and 6pm when people are returning.
Travelers should be prepared for long waiting times on many autobahns this Easter weekend. This is also the message for those who want to avoid the avalanche of traffic on Thursday and take to the road on Friday, March 30 instead. On Saturday, it is likely to be congested only on the long-distance routes heading towards the Alps. In good weather, one can expect some temporary bouts of heavy traffic heading towards the coast. Those who take to the road on Easter Sunday can expect open roads.
Most affected are the motorways in southern Germany and those leading to the North Sea and Baltic Sea, as well as built-up metropolitan areas. Unstable weather could also aggravate traffic conditions for short periods.
The heaviest traffic congestion is expected in the following areas:
A1 Hamburg - Bremen - Dortmund - Cologne
A1/A3/A4 Cologne Ring
A2 Oberhausen - Dortmund - Hannover
A3 Oberhausen - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Nürnberg - Passau
A4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt - Dresden
A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck - Frankfurt - Karlsruhe - Basel
A6 Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Heilbronn - Nürnberg
A7 Hamburg - Hannover - Würzburg - Ulm - Füssen/Reutte
A8 Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - München - Salzburg
A9 Berlin - Nürnberg - München
A10 Berliner Ring
A61 Mönchengladbach - Koblenz - Ludwigshafen
A81 Stuttgart - Singen A93 Inntaldreieck - Kufstein
A95/B2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
A99 Munich bypass
The ADAC advises that traffic congestion can be expected on the main routes to winter sports areas in the Alps, especially over the Tauern, Inntal and Brenner routes in Austria, on the Italian Brenner motorway and on the Swiss Gotthard route. In addition, there may be border checks for those coming from Austria into Germany, especially at Suben (A 3 Linz - Passau), Walserberg (A 8 Salzburg - Munich) and Kiefersfelden (A 93 Kufstein - Rosenheim ). (Orig. text: ga.de Translation: ck)
