Many people are happy about the long weekend, but it could be a big damper for some short vacationers: drivers have to expect long traffic jams. At least there is a gap that promises free travel.
Munich (dpa / lby) – The short vacation on the long Ascension weekend should be clouded by traffic jams for many drivers. Especially on Wednesday afternoon, the ADAC traffic club expects some significant disabilities. In Upper Bavaria, Tyrol has again announced the block handling of trucks for Wednesday, which often results in extremely long traffic jams from the border near Kufstein to the Munich area. According to the forecasts, the return wave will then peak on Sunday afternoon.
“The streets are likely to be significantly busier than on the Ascension Day weekends of the previous two years – the Corona crisis no longer restricts national travel,” explained the ADAC. “Especially the motorways in the metropolitan areas are at times very congested.” There is also a large number of construction sites. After all: “It should be relatively quiet on the trunk roads in Germany on Friday.”
In Bavaria, traffic experts expect a high risk of traffic jams, especially in the greater Munich area and on the A99 ring road. There are likely to be waiting times on the A6 between Heilbronn and Nuremberg, on the A8 from Stuttgart via Munich to Salzburg, on the A9 Munich-Nuremberg and on the A95 and federal highway 2 from Munich to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
This also applies to the A93 from the Inntal triangle in the direction of Kufstein. As on a total of 38 days this year, the Austrian state of Tyrol has scheduled block processing of trucks at the Kufstein/Kiefersfelden border crossing for Wednesday. In order to relieve the Inntalautobahn, the police only allow about 300 trucks coming from Germany on the A12 per hour. If necessary, heavy traffic is brought to a complete standstill. In the past, this sometimes resulted in traffic jams of around 60 kilometers in length.
