ADAC: No traffic jam chaos on East German highways

The feared traffic jam chaos on the East German highways on the last vacation weekend in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt has failed to materialize, according to ADAC. "There are more traffic jams than last weekend, but we don't need to talk about chaos," a spokeswoman told the German Press Agency. Many holidaymakers had probably already returned earlier.

The automobile club had previously warned of longer traffic jams in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, among other places, due to vacation return traffic. While the vacations are coming to an end in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony and school has already started again in Thuringia, many other federal states are still on vacation.

According to the report, traffic was most likely to come to a standstill on sections of the Autobahn 4 near Dresden and in the Leipzig/Halle and Magdeburg conurbations.