Holiday roads: Anas suspends 906 construction sites ahead of summer exodus

Nine hundred and six construction sites suspended in view of increased traffic for the summer exodus. Anas will suspend them from 27 July to 3 September. This is 70% of the construction sites currently active, which total 1278. "In view of the summer exodus," explained CEO Aldo Isi, "we have strengthened our presences throughout the country and limited the presence of roadworks sites with the aim of making travel along the short, medium and long-distance routes of our network easier and safer for all users. Traffic is expected to increase steadily along the Anas network over the last weekend of July.

Viabilità Italia is reporting a red dot on the morning of Saturday 20 July and in the afternoon of Sunday 21 July. Shifts are on the increase due to early departures and especially for short weekends to holiday and seaside resorts. Saturday morning from large urban centres and vice versa on Sunday afternoon to the big cities. The intensification of traffic along the roads will take place from the last weekend in July to end in early September. On Saturday 10 August, there will be a black mark in the morning and a red mark in the afternoon. On Ferragosto red dot in the morning and heavy traffic in the afternoon (yellow). Saturday 17, red dot morning and afternoon, as on Sunday 18 August. Red dot on Sunday 25 August and 1 September. Saturday 24 and 31 August, heavy traffic in the morning (yellow) and red in the afternoon.

The routes affected by traffic are, southbound, the main routes towards holiday resorts, in particular along the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ionian coasts and along the border crossings towards France, Slovenia and Croatia, and out of urban centres. A significant flow of traffic is also expected near urban centres, especially from late Sunday afternoon onwards, in conjunction with weekend returns.

On Saturday 20 July from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 21 July from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. there is a ban on heavy vehicles. Then a ban on Friday 2 August from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 3 August from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 4 August from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Same hours on the weekend from Friday 9 August to Sunday 11 August. Prohibition also on 15th August from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Then the bans until the end of the month are only in effect on Saturdays and Sundays.

In detail, Anas explains, the intensification of traffic may concern the main tourist routes the A2 'Autostrada del Mediterraneo' which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; state roads 106 Jonica and 18 Tirrena Inferiore in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania and A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorways in Sicily; state road 131 Carlo Felice in Sardinia the SS 148 Pontina road in Lazio, a particularly busy artery that together with the SS7 'Appia' ensures connections between Rome and the tourist resorts of lower Lazio; the E45 route (SS675 and SS3 bis), which covers 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). In the north, the motorway junctions RA13 and RA14 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 in Valle D'Aosta and the SS309 Romea between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto and the SS51 of Alemagna in Veneto.