Guest workers flooding Hungary’s motorways

Traffic on Hungary’s motorways was particularly robust during the weekend, and the situation will be even more challenging since a large influx of guest workers are planning to leave for Western Europe for holidays as school terms are ending. Serbians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and Albanians drive home via Hungary, causing e.g. three-hour-long waiting time at several border crossings.

According to 24.hu, traffic is regularly jammed on Hungary’s motorways and guest workers going home for holiday worsens the situation. The most crowded motorways are the M1-M0-M5-M43. M1 connects Budapest with Vienna. M0 is the ring road around the Hungarian capital. M5 leads to Szeged and the main Southern border crossing to Serbia, Röszke. Meanwhile, M43 is an offset of M5 leading to Romania and the Southern Transylvanian motorway through the Csanádpalóta-Nagylak border crossing.

The majority of the cars transiting through Hungary come from Germany. Since the school holiday started even in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, more people are heading home to spend some days or weeks with their families. Utinform.hu, Hungary’s road traffic website is not available in English, but you can check out the actual waiting time at the border crossings at THIS website. For example, now, the waiting time at the Csanádpalota border crossing is 1 hour, just like at Röszke-Horgos.