Caption

Traffic jam on the A2 motorway near Bottrop, behind the Bottrop motorway junction, in the direction of Oberhausen, due to a long-term construction site, renewal of the lanes, reduction of the lanes from 4, incl. access from the A31, to 2 lanes, daily traffic jam, in the background the UNIPER coal-fired power plant Gelsenkirchen Scholven, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

May 21, 2024

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24I15_231

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

Available size

166,4Mb (6,6Mb) / 31,1in x 20,8in / 9339 x 6226 (300dpi)

Keywords

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