Many German families make use of the extended Easter weekend to visit their relatives back home. In the years before the pandemic, traffic on Maundy Thursday was thus renowned to be particularly slow in our neighbouring country.
This year, ADAC expects the A1 motorway from Hamburg to Bremen, Dortmund, and Cologne to be affected in particular. The same applies to the A3 motorway from Würzburg to Nuremberg and Passau, and the A6 motorway from Mannheim to Nuremberg. Similarly, much congestion is to be expected on the Cologne and Berlin motorway rings, states ADAC.
Even though the motoring association believes that more people will be back on German roads as was the case during the Covid years of 2020 and 2021, ADAC still assesses that pre-pandemic levels will not be reached.
It also remains a possibility that elevated infection rates, high fuel prices, and the war in Ukraine lead to more Germans refraining from long-distance travel, thereby increasing traffic within Germany, estimates ADAC.
