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Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia coordinate truck traffic on 31 October and 1 November

This solution has been implemented to avoid situations in which the traffic ban for heavy goods vehicles applies on two consecutive public holidays, i.e. on Reformation Day (October 31) in Lower Saxony and on All Saints\’ Day (1.11 ) in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the years 2020-2025, the traffic ban for vehicles with a MAM of over 7.5 tons on both holidays will apply only from 6:00 to 22:00. Moreover, on the day when there is a state holiday in one of the federal states, HGVs will able allowed to use the main transit routes, i.e. A1, A2, A30, A31 and A33 from 6:00 to 22:00. This rule will also apply if All Saints’ Day or Reformation Day falls on a Sunday.
The list of transit routes where heavy goods traffic is permitted between 6.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. on state holidays observed in a given state:
➡ A1 – From the Lotte / Osnabrück motorway junction to the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony at the Osnabrück-Nord junction and in the opposite direction.
➡ A2 – From the Bad Oeynhausen motorway junction to the border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and in the opposite direction.
➡ A 30 – From the Bad Bentheim border crossing to the Bad Oeynhausen junction (A2 motorway) and in the opposite direction.
➡ A31 – From the Schüttorf motorway junction to the border between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia and in the opposite direction.
➡ A33 – From the Osnabrück-Süd junction to the Dissen-Süd junction and in the opposite direction.