A traffic light in Osnabrück: Traffic builds up at Berliner Platz!

A traffic light in Osnabrück: Traffic builds up at Berliner Platz!

On Thursday afternoon, April 24, 2025, there was a traffic light loss in Osnabrück that affected Wittekindstrasse. While the loss of the traffic lights took place in both directions, the traffic lights flashed on the BUERSCHER Straße and the access of the municipal utilities yellow. This led to a considerable traffic jam, especially at Berliner Platz, which is considered one of the main traffic routes in the city.

The traffic light failure is not the first incident of this kind in the recent past. According to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung there was already a similar problem at Berliner Platz within a short period of time. Earlier failures were found on the following data: February 10, February 19, March 3, 14 March and on March 20.

repeated traffic problems

The News reported that in previous traffic lights in this area there were often traffic adaptations in which road users had to be oriented towards provisionals such as the right of way. Interestingly, a traffic chaos failed to materialize during the first failure during the after -school after -work traffic, even though it lasted about an hour and a half, and there was no accidents.