The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, trusts that the work stoppages that began 17 days ago in road freight transport will end in ”a few days”.
In the corridors of the Congress of Deputies, Sánchez has stressed that the traffic data for heavy vehicles on the roads is already close to that of a normal day and that the wholesale supply markets (“mercas”) are operating “normally”.
According to data from the traffic management center of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), the volume of heavy vehicle traffic stood at 97.9% this Tuesday, compared to 72% observed on the day of greatest monitoring of mobilization convened by the National Platform for the Defense of Road Transport.
Since last Thursday, with the signing of the agreement between the Government and the goods department of the National Committee for Road Transport – an entity that the conveners of the mobilizations are not part of -, the follow-up of the stoppages has been progressively reduced.
For its part, the Platform has asked truckers and professional drivers not to “decay & rdquor; and has insisted that “there is less & rdquor; to find a solution to the conflict.
The protesters, who this Wednesday have caused retentions of up to nine kilometers with their vehicles in Barcelona, have not called off the protests and consider the measures announced by the Government insufficient, which include a reduction of 20 cents per liter of fuel until 30 June and the granting of 450 million euros in direct aid to the sector.