85% of vehicles return to the AMB

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  • The roads with the most retentions have been the AP-7 and the A-2

  • There are still 73,000 more vehicles to return to the vicinity of the Catalan capital

Some 527,000 vehicles have returned to the Barcelona metropolitan area (AMB) this Monday at 8:00 p.m., according to the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT). With this data, Catalan roads are already 88% of the planned routes have been covered in the Easter return operation, which will close this midnight.

Still lack 73,000 more vehicles to return to the vicinity of the Catalan capital of the 600,000 trips planned for the Easter holidays.

The The most affected road has once again been the AP-7, although during the afternoon the traffic has not come to present considerable difficulties. But several sections of circulation have accumulated with retentions, and in some cases of intense circulation.

In fact, the retentions on the road during this Holy Week have been reduced by 20% thanks to speed limitations that the additional lanes have already been applied on the road. According to the director of Trànsit, Ramon Lamiel, there have been traffic jams on a total of 45 roads in Catalonia, but the accident rate has been reduced considerably. Only two people have lost their livesthree less than last year, and 75% less on the AP-7 during the first quarter of 2023 (going from eight to two victims).

Accidents and breakdowns on Catalan roads

Monday started with a accident on the AP-7 in Vendrell in the Barcelona direction, which has forced the cutting of a lane and has caused congestion. to transverse axis a broken-down truck has forced a lane to be cut and slow down traffic on the section between Arbúcies and Lleida. Likewise, in the N-340 there have also been moments of complication, with queues of up to 10 kilometers around the Pobla de Montornès (Tarragonès). Also in the early afternoon there were 2 kilometers of traffic with traffic jams in Castellet i la Gornal (Alt Penedès).

Around six in the evening the roads most affected by traffic have been the A-2 and the AP-7, which have both accumulated more than 15 kilometers of retentions. Also an accident in the C-32 has complicated traffic at 6:00 p.m. with the cut of two lanes in the Barcelona direction and has left a 4-kilometre roadblock between Viladecans and Gavà (Barcelona) for just over an hour.

At 1:30 p.m. some 363,000 vehicles had already returned to the AMB, according to Trànsit, so that the Catalan highways at that time had already assumed more than 60% of the routes planned for the return of Easter, which will close tonight. Therefore, the return has not been concentrated in the late afternoon and has become somewhat more staggered than other years.

special device

To minimize possible retentions that may be recorded, Trànsit has implemented special measures in 200 kilometers of circulation. Until this midnight, there will be additional lanes in the opposite direction to the usual between Montornès and Sant Celoni and also between Vilafranca and Molins de Rei. There will also be an additional lane on the C-32 between Montgat and Sant Andreu de Llavaneres.

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In addition, between 3:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. the speed limit at 100 kilometers per hour between Martorell and Gelida in Barcelona sense. On the other hand, trucks will not be able to circulate on the highway between ten in the morning and ten at night.

During Easter Mondays it is customary to register kilometric queues in Catalonia because of mobility return of the Easter holidays. In fact, in 2022 at 2:00 p.m. they accumulated 125 kilometers of retentions to the entire road network.



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