Highways, here is the busiest weekend of August. Saturday 10th there is a black dot –

The weekend that is expected to be the busiest of the entire summer period is underway. Along the Anas network, traffic is expected to constantly increase and Viabilità Italia is talking about a ‘black dot’ in particular tomorrow morning, Saturday 10 August, and a ‘red dot’ this afternoon, Friday 9 August, and on Sunday 11 August: travel is clearly increasing from large urban centers throughout Italy towards holiday resorts, seaside resorts in the south and mountain resorts in the north and towards the state borders. The routes affected, Anas explains in a note, are, in a southerly direction, the main routes towards holiday resorts, in particular along the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ionian ridges and along the border crossings towards France, Slovenia and Croatia, and when leaving urban centers.

A significant flow of traffic is also expected near urban centers, especially starting late Sunday afternoon, coinciding with weekend returns. The ban on heavy vehicle transit is in force today from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., tomorrow Saturday 10 August from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday 11 August from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Anas reminds that it has increased the commitment of personnel throughout the national territory and has limited the presence of construction sites until September 3: 906 construction sites have been suspended, 70% of those previously active (1,278).

As regards the Anas network, the intensification of traffic could affect the main tourist routes: the A2 «Autostrada del Mediterraneo» which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; the state roads 106 «Jonica» and 18 «Tirrena Inferiore» in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania and A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorways 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; the E45 Itinerary (SS675 and SS3 bis) which passes through 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) routes. And again: to the north the RA13 and RA14 motorway connections in Friuli-Venezia Giulia towards the border crossings, the SS36 «del Lago di Como e dello Spluga» in Lombardy, the SS45 «di Val Trebbia» in Liguria, the SS26 «della Valle D’Aosta» and the SS309 «Romea» between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto and the SS 51 «di Alemagna» in Veneto.