Bad weather is also complicating the return operation on the roads of Catalonia. The Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) warned yesterday through a message on the social network return home of so many families and to lighten the circulation towards Barcelona.
In fact, the director of the SCT himself, Ramon Lamiel, yesterday asked citizens to “avoid driving on the roads” on Sunday afternoon and in this way anticipate or postpone the return home as much as possible.
The SCT predicts that around 590,000 vehicles will travel on Catalan roads towards the Barcelona metropolitan area during yesterday, Sunday and today. Some 114,616 did so before six in the afternoon on Sunday. It was precisely mid-afternoon yesterday when the most complicated moments of the day occurred.
According to data from the SCT, the AP-7 registered delays of ten kilometers in the section comprised by the Tarragona municipalities of Ametlla de Mar-Vandellòs and de l'Hospitalet de l'Infant (Baix Camp), in the north direction, as well as queues of up to five kilometers between the towns of Vendrell and Banyeres del Penedès (Baix Penedès), four kilometers in Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès), three in L'Ampolla de Mar and also two in Gelida. Heading south, there will be delays of up to seven kilometers between Fogars and Sant Celoni and two at the height of La Roca (Vallès Oriental).
In addition to the AP-7, there were around twelve kilometers of delays on the C-16 between Bagà and Cercs (Berguedà) due to an accident, three on the National II at the height of Tordera (Maresme), two on the C-55, between Manresa (Bages) and Castellgalí, and finally four at the link C-31 and C-65, in Santa Cristina d'Aro (Baix Empordà).
