Traffic
Discover queues and road works
Written by Garry on
The motorway (autobahn) infrastructure in central North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) is extremely dense and use of the complete road system is heavy. Autobahns weave their way past Neuss south towards Cologne, north and west to the Netherlands and east in and around the Ruhr region. Others weave all across the state.
Rainy days especially cause chaos at rush hours, Mondays and trade fair days create tailbacks that can be many kilometres long. German drivers tend to drive very close, fast and tend not to look so far ahead as some other nationalities. Yet the roads are fairly safe, some may hoop their horn but there is very, very little road rage.
Thanks to the state authorities, it is possible to check the motorway system for snarl-ups before setting off. Besides showing current traffic jams, the transport ministry has an excellent system to predict ahead of time. Available in English, it is easy to use.
Contact
Ministerium für Bauen und Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Jürgensplatz 1
40219 Düsseldorf , NRW
Germany
Phone: +49 211 384 30
Fax: +49 211 384 391 10
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)