Kilometres-Long Traffic Jams Clog Roads toward Croatia
In the morning, the longest - 30 kilometres-long - traffic jam was reported from the Starod border crossing (S), where drivers can expect to wait 4 hours to cross the border to Croatia.
There are two long traffic jams on the road between Šentilj border crossing with Austria and Gruškovje border crossing with Croatia.
The longest - a 13-kilometre traffic jam - has built up in the village of Draženci near Ptuj before the end of the express way leading toward the border crossing. The other, which is about 5 kilometres long, has built up before the Gruškovje border crossing.
Heavy traffic is also reported from the Jelšane border crossing near Ilirska Bistrica (S), where a 5-kilometres-long traffic jam has built up. Here drivers can expect to wait about an hour to get across the border.
A jam has also already built on the road from the Koper (SW) to border crossing Dragonja. Drivers can expect to wait half an hour to exit the country, as well as to enter.
Several traffic jams have also already built on the Ljubljana-Koper motorway due to car crashes. Heavy traffic with occasional bumper-to-bumper driving is reported at the Dolenjsko motorway from Ljubljana to Novo mesto and at the Pomursko motorway between Murska Sobota and Lendava.
Moreover, heavy traffic and jams have also built up between exit Lesce on the Gorenjsko motorway and the Alpine lakeside resort of Bled, as well as between the seaside towns of Koper and Izola.
A 6-kilometre jam has built up on the Austrian side of the Karavanke tunnel near Jesenice (NW), according to reports by Austrian press agency APA. Heavy traffic is expected in the opposite direction in the afternoon. Here too kilometres-long jam is expected.