If you have already arrived at work, see if you can plan your meetings or chores so that you can get home before the busy evening rush hour. Or afterwards, if you still want to get promoted. In any case, it is a good plan to avoid rush hour, but that could be extra important tonight and tomorrow evening. The ANWB expects extra busy evening rush hours on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 April.
The extra traffic on the road is due to the May holidays. This year it starts next Friday. Families who have booked a week away can hit the road en masse towards their holiday destinations tonight or tomorrow. That is why the ANWB predicts that roads in the direction of recreational areas will have a hard time and that there will be a busy evening rush hour.
The busiest evening rush hours are expected here
According to the ANWB, you are most likely to stop on the A2 and A27 from Utrecht towards the south of the country. Things can also happen on the A12 between Arnhem and the German border. If you take the A50 in the direction of Apeldoorn to Eindhoven or the A1 or A28 in the direction of the Veluwe, it is also better to leave earlier than planned. Strangely enough, the Roadside Assistance expects few problems on the highway on King’s Day. Unless you take the A10, of course.
Oh, and in France there is a strike at the airports. Which means that Dutch flights have also been canceled for today, not just those going to or from France. (So our trip to Nice to test electric Maseratis is in doubt, sniff.) Well, aviation strikes are pretty much a national sport in France.
Also extra busy abroad
We also have bad news for holidaymakers heading to Germany or France. In Germany, of course, the road is being worked on. There are more than 1,200 nationwide Construction next weekend. You also experience a lot of delays on the A3 between Arnhem and Oberhausen near Hamminkeln.
In Austria, work is underway on five tunnels between Golling and Werfen. Motorists driving on the Austrian A10 between Salzburg and Villach will notice this. In France things should not be too bad on the way there. Will you return on Sunday of May 12? Then you may encounter a lot of traffic on the French highways after the long Ascension weekend.
