The AP-7 has accumulated up to 50 kilometers of traffic with traffic jams or traffic with congestion in different parts of its route in the first stages of the operation out of Sant Joan.
The most complicated section was located between Gelida and Cerdanyola dels Vallès, with 25 kilometers of traffic with congestion involving stopped vehicles in the Tarragona direction.
In the Girona direction there has also been a section of up to 19 kilometers of circulation with retentions between Montornès del Vallès and Cerdanyola.
On the other hand, the rounds of Barcelona have also presented complicated circulation, as has been experienced on roads such as the C-16 as it passes through Castellbell and El Vilar or between Terrassa and Rubí.
Other secondary roads in the Costa Brava area that have registered problems have been the C-65, in the Llagostera-Cassà de la Selva section in the direction of Santa Cristina d'Aro and the GI-600, from Blanes to Tordera.
The Catalan Traffic Service explained this morning on Twitter that it expects 460,000 vehicles to leave the metropolitan area of Barcelona in the Sant Joan exit operation, between 3:00 p.m. this Friday and 3:00 p.m. this Saturday.
For this reason, it has activated a special device in which, for example, it has installed for the first time an additional lane of 53 kilometers northbound on the AP-7. In addition, it has reduced the speed to 80 km/h from the exit of Barcelona on the B-23 to the AP-7 at the height of Gelida.
Despite the fact that today and tomorrow are the days that will register the most displacements, Trànsit estimates that 40,000 vehicles left the metropolitan area of Barcelona yesterday to avoid the foreseeable traffic jams that are already being reported this afternoon.
