August bank holiday, red dot on the roads: the A2 of the Mediterranean is being monitored

Il fourth weekend of summer exodus It is marked by long-distance departures August bank holiday. On the Anas network, traffic is expected to increase constantly for the third weekend of the month traveler movements who have remained in the big cities, but who allow themselves a few days of rest to celebrate the August 15th in closer locations. There will also be the last vacationers who will leave for more distant destinations, while the first returns home are expected starting from Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th.

And so Roads Italy he announced red dot starting from the afternoon of today, Wednesday 14 August and tomorrow morning, Thursday 15 August: travel is clearly increasing from large urban centres throughout Italy to holiday resortsof the sea in the South and of the mountains in the North and towards the state borders. Conversely, on Saturday 17 August and Sunday 18 August heavy traffic is expected towards the large urban centres. The routes affected are, in a southerly direction, the main routes towards the holiday resorts, in particular along the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ionian ridges and along the border crossings towards France, Slovenia and Croatia, and when leaving the urban centres. A significant flow of traffic is also expected in the vicinity of the urban centres, especially starting from late Sunday afternoon, in conjunction with the weekend returns.

The intensification of circulation It may concern the main tourist itineraries including the A2 “Mediterranean Motorway” which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; state roads 106 “Jonica” e 18 “Lower Tyrrhenian” in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania motorways e A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo in Sicily; the State Road 131 “Carlo Felice” in Sardinia; the state road 148 Pontina in Lazio, a busy artery which together with the SS7 “Appia” ensures connections between Rome and the tourist resorts of lower Lazio;Itinerary E45 (SS675 and SS3 bis) which crosses Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and connects the North-East with central Italy; the main routes SS1 Aurelia (Lazio, Tuscany and Liguria), SS16 “Adriatica” (Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto). In the North the RA13 and RA14 Motorway Connections in Friuli-Venezia Giulia towards the border crossings, the SS36 “Lake Como and Spluga” in Lombardy, the SS45 “of Trebbia Valley” in Liguria, the SS26 “of the Aosta Valley” and the SS309 “Romea” between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto and the SS 51 “of Germany” in Veneto.