It gets crowded on the beaches: the summer holidays have started in Hamburg, Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia will follow early this week. The result: From Friday, the streets in the north are threatened by kilometers of traffic jams.
The ADAC expects a lot of traffic jams on the roads in the north at the weekend. According to the automobile club, the roads in particular are affected around Hamburg as well as Autobahn 1 towards Fehmarn and Autobahn 7 towards the north. Since travelers have to prove that they have booked at least six overnight stays in the country when entering Denmark, there may be waiting times at the border, according to the ADAC.
Traffic jam hotspots are on the according to ADAC A1 between Bremen-Arsten and Oyten, near Billstedt and near Lübeck. On the A7 will it be before and after Elbe tunnel, just like Soltau particularly tight. In addition, the Coastal roads in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania be.
An overview of the traffic jams
- Major roads to the North and Baltic Seas
- Greater Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne
- A 1 Bremen – Hamburg – Puttgarden
- A 2 Dortmund – Hanover – Berlin
- A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg
- A 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Frankfurt – Karlsruhe – Basel
- A 6 Metz / Saarbrücken – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim
- A 7 Hamburg – Flensburg
- A 7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen / Reutte
- A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
- A 9 Berlin – Nuremberg – Munich
- A 10 Berliner Ring
- A 11 Berlin – triangle Uckermark
- A 24 Berlin – Hamburg
- A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
- A 93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
- A 95 / B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- A 99 bypass Munich
ADAC expects traffic jams in the north as of Friday afternoon
In any case, drivers in the north are facing a hot weekend of traffic jams. Holiday guests from several federal states are traveling, warns the ADAC. The traffic experts of the automobile club expect Traffic jams and full motorways in the north as early as Friday afternoon. Then the rush hour traffic will hit the holidaymakers from Hamburg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
Holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein also start on Monday. "Because of the Corona crisis, many have given up their original vacation plans and now prefer to spend their vacation inland," said ADAC spokesman Hans Pieper. In combination with numerous construction sites and a full closure of the A7, patience is required for drivers.
Traffic jams in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania towards Rügen and Usedom
The ADAC anticipates heavy travel in the direction of the islands of Rügen and Usedom on the B96 and B110 / 111. The so-called Tribseer Loch on the A20 is a traffic jam guarantee on the motorways, said ADAC spokesman Hans Pieper. Drivers would also have to Traffic jams at construction sites such as the Petersdorfer Brücke on the A19 and on the A24 between Berlin and Hamburg near Suckow and previously at the Wittstock triangle (Brandenburg).
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Many Germans go on vacation at home
Because of the Corona crisis, more Germans are going on holiday in their own country than usual this year. The holiday resorts on the North and Baltic Seas also notice this. They consistently report a very good booking situation.
"With us, the quarters are almost fully booked. The pre-bookings for summer 2020 were already very good even before the corona pandemic, so that only a few short-term travelers were added," said the press spokeswoman for the Grömitz tourism service, Jaqueline Felsmann.
Most of the beds on the North Sea coast are fully booked. "We have probably had the strongest June in recent years, and in the coming week we will leave the 90 percent mark in occupancy and occupancy behind," said Olaf Raffel from Büsumer Tourismus Marketing Service TMS.
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