Berlin/Munich (dpa/tmn)
Before New Year’s Eve, the autobahns are largely free. But right at the beginning of the year, the experts expect traffic jams on the trunk roads. There is particularly heavy traffic on many roads on January 1st.
After a few quieter days, the highways will be full again right after New Year’s Eve. At the weekend (December 30th to January 1st) the holidays end in six federal states: Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Thuringia.
Of the Auto Club Europe (ACE) and the ADAC therefore expect traffic jams on the trunk roads, especially on Sunday (January 1). After all, there is a nationwide driving ban on trucks over 7.5 tons on this day.
On Friday and Saturday, the long-distance travel routes close to the Alps will mainly be used. Since some winter vacationers are on their way to the ski areas in the Alpine region.
Motorists should also plan longer journey times due to wintry weather with black ice or heavy fog. ACE and ADAC consider traffic jams and delays to be likely on the following routes – often in both directions:
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a 1 |
Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck |
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A 2 |
Dortmund – Hanover – Braunschweig – Berlin |
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A 3 |
Arnhem – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Passau |
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A 4 |
Dresden – Erfurt – Kirchheimer Dreieck and Cologne – Aachen |
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A 5 |
Frankfurt/Main – Karlsruhe – Basel |
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A 6 |
Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg |
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A 7 |
Hamburg – Hanover – Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen/Reutte |
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A 8 |
Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg |
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A 9 |
Berlin – Leipzig – Nuremberg – Munich |
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a 10 |
Berlin Ring |
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A 11 |
Berliner Ring – triangle Uckermark – Szczecin |
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A 24 |
Hamburg – Berlin |
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A 61 |
Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen |
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A 81 |
Würzburg – Heilbronn – Stuttgart – Singing |
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A 93 |
Rosenheim-Kiefersfelden |
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A95/B2 |
Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
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A 99 |
Bypass Munich |
In the Alps, drivers should expect wintry road conditions at all times. A short-term blocking of the passes is also possible. The ACE provides up-to-date online information about closures on the alpine roads.
And drivers should plan waiting times at the borders. According to the ADAC, this applies in particular to entry and exit to Austria at the Suben (A3 Linz – Passau), Walserberg (A8 Salzburg – Munich) and Kiefersfelden (A93 Kufstein – Rosenheim) crossings. A time buffer of 30 to 45 minutes should be sufficient.
You can see how long you have to wait at the border from Austria to Germany in individual cases on-line at the Austrian infrastructure company Asfinag.
