Traffic jams and heatwaves disrupt holidaymakers across Europe
This weekend, European travellers had to put up with packed motorways and delayed trains as families headed south towards their holiday destinations.
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00:00 Black Saturday for European roads.
00:03 Travellers from across the continent are racing to their holiday destinations, causing traffic
00:08 jams all around.
00:10 In Germany, people travel south, passing through Salzburg in Austria and blocking traffic,
00:15 especially on the Toyern freeway.
00:17 "They are happy, they have no problem with it.
00:22 It's holiday time, it's normal that there is a lot of traffic, everyone is travelling
00:26 and we have no problem with it."
00:29 In the UK, on Saturday morning alone, 17,000 people travelled through Dover on their way
00:34 to France.
00:35 Officials have warned that waiting time at the English port could reach up to two hours.
00:41 In France, the total length of traffic jams across the country reached 1,000 kilometres
00:46 this weekend.
00:47 And the heatwave isn't helping.
00:50 Holiday goers hoping to avoid the roads were stuck at the Paris-Montparnasse train station
00:55 due to a weather-related disruption.
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