Every year again ...

Traffic jams and long waiting times on the Karawanken highway

The Karawanken Autobahn was already jammed for miles on Saturday morning.

(Bild: Sobe Hermann/Ersteller : Hermann Sobe , 9232 Rosegg, Urheberrecht , Credit -Photo by Medienservice HS Sobe)

The saying "Every year again" probably comes to mind for many drivers and toll station employees this weekend when they look at the avalanche of traffic that has been rolling south since Saturday morning - including on the Karawanken Autobahn (A11).

Not a summer goes by without traffic experts warning of particularly heavy travel days that cause miles of traffic jams and often hours of waiting time on typical vacation routes. Nor does a summer go by without avalanches of thousands of cars, motorhomes, buses and more heading south, causing blockages at border crossings on busy Saturdays. 

Already on Saturday morning, road users were stuck in traffic jams on the A11 for more than an hour and a half.

(Bild: Sobe Hermann/Ersteller : Hermann Sobe , 9232 Rosegg, Urheberrecht , Credit -Photo by Medienservice HS Sobe, Krone KREATIV)

This was also the case on the Karawanken freeway, where traffic has been backed up for kilometers in the area of the Rosenbach toll station since Saturday morning. "The waiting time in front of the Karawanken Tunnel is more than one and a half hours. As feared, the start of the vacations in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg led to traffic jams and delays on numerous main routes in Austria on Saturday morning," says the ÖAMTC, which expects that the peak of the "Bavarian weekend" has not yet been reached.