Weekend of the first summer exodus of 2024, today Saturday 27 July and tomorrow Sunday 28 July with millions of Italians leaving for the holidays and ready to hit the road and highways from North to South. In anticipation of the increase in traffic, Anas (FS Italiane Group) has limited the presence of construction sites: from today until September 3, 906 construction sites have been suspended, 70% of those currently active (1,278). Constantly increasing traffic is expected along the Anas network for the last weekend of July.
Traffic today and tomorrow, when it is heaviest
A red dot is expected (heavy traffic with possible criticality) on the morning of Saturday 27 Julydespite the bans for heavy vehicles with a capacity exceeding 7.5 t. from 8 am to 4 pm, and Sunday 28 July all day (heavy vehicles will not be able to circulate from 7 am to 10 pm), both in the morning and in the afternoon. The situation will be a little less critical on Saturday afternoon, marked by the yellow dot (Heavy traffic).
The busiest roads
The routes affected are, in a southerly direction, the main routes towards holiday resorts, in particular along the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ionian ridges and along the border crossings towards France, Slovenia and Croatia, and when leaving urban centres. A significant flow of traffic is also expected in the vicinity of urban centres, especially starting from late Sunday afternoon, in conjunction with weekend returns.
The intensification of traffic may affect the main tourist routes: the A2 “Autostrada del Mediterraneo” which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; the state roads 106 Jonica and 18 Tirrena Inferiore in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania and A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorways in Sicily; the state road 131 Carlo Felice in Sardinia; the state road 148 Pontina in Lazio, a particularly busy artery which together with the SS7 “Appia” ensures connections between Rome and the tourist resorts of lower Lazio; the E45 route (SS675 and SS3 bis) which passes through Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and connects the north-east with central Italy; the SS1 Aurelia (Lazio, Tuscany and Liguria), SS16 Adriatica (Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto) routes.
To the north, the RA13 and RA14 motorway junctions in Friuli-Venezia Giulia towards the border crossings, the SS36 of Lake Como and Spluga in Lombardy, the SS45 of Val Trebbia in Liguria, the SS26 of Valle D’Aosta and the SS309 Romea between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto and the SS51 of Alemagna in Veneto.
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