(Finance) – The third weekend of the great summer exodus is expected to be the busiest of the entire period. Along the Anas network Traffic is expected to continue to increase during the second weekend of August following the closure of most of the country’s businesses during the week of August 15th. Roads Italy provides black dot in particular on the morning of tomorrow, Saturday 10 August, and red dot this afternoon, Friday 9 August and throughout the day on Sunday 11 August: travel is clearly increasing from large urban centres throughout Italy towards holiday resorts, seaside resorts in the south and mountain resorts in the north and towards state borders.
To allow traffic to flow smoothly Anas (FS Italiane Group) has increased the commitment of personnel throughout the country and limited the presence of construction sites until September 3: 906 construction sites have been suspended, 70% of those previously active (1278).
The Interested itineraries 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 out of the urban centres. A significant flow of traffic is also expected in the vicinity of the urban centres, especially starting from the late afternoon on Sunday, in conjunction with the weekend returns.
The prohibition on transit of heavy vehicles is in force today from 4pm to 10pm, tomorrow Saturday 10 August from 8am to 10pm and Sunday 11 August from 7am to 10pm.
THE’intensification of circulation may concern the main tourist itineraries: the A2 “Mediterranean Motorway” which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; state roads 106 “Jonica” and 18 “Tirrena Inferiore” in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania motorways And A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo 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;E45 route (SS675 and SS3 bis) which includes Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and connects the north-east with central Italy; SS1 Aurelia directions (Lazio, Tuscany and Liguria), SS16 “Adriatic” (Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto).
To the north the RA13 and RA14 motorway connectionsin 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.