Southern Hungarian border crossings have fallen, waiting time about 2 hours
The main border crossings from Serbia to Hungary fell to the crowds of Serbian and other Balkans nationals trying to travel back to Germany, Austria and other Western European countries following the end-of-year holidays. According to the Hungarian police, waiting time at the Röszke motorway border crossing reaches two hours, while at the Ásotthalom and Röszke road border crossings, it is one hour.
Lots of people from the Balkans try to get to Western and Central European destinations following the Christmas and New Year’s Eve festivities. Therefore, long queues were formed at the main Hungarian Southern border crossings. Currently, it takes 2 hours to enter Hungary from Serbia at the Röszke motorway crossing point, while you have to wait at least one hour at the Ásotthalom and Röszke road crossing points.
Main road border crossing closed to traffic yesterday
According to Délmagyar, a Szeged newspaper, due to the increased traffic, Hungarian authorities closed the outbound border crossing from Hungary to Serbia at the Röszke road crossing on Thursday afternoon. This is how they tried to increase the number of incoming lanes to Hungary and reduce waiting time.
The Hungarian police’s disclaimer about the data published on their website says that “the data were collected based on police experience and are for information purposes. The real waiting time can be changed depending on the citizenship of travellers, number of travellers, vehicles, police and other authority measures.”
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