The Easter Holy Week exit operation complicates this Good Friday the main road accesses towards the Costa Brava and other exit points from the Barcelona metropolitan area. The N II accumulates 9 kilometers of retentions in Vidreres in the direction of Girona, while difficulties are also registered on the C 35 and the C 65 in the direction of Platja d'Aro.
Intense traffic towards the Costa Brava and the Pyrenees
The situation is especially dense in the vicinity of Vidreres, one of the usual routes towards the Girona coast on days of high mobility. In mid-morning, around 11:15 a.m., the N II concentrated the most significant queues in this corridor. Added to this was traffic with retentions on the C 35 and C 65, also in the direction of Platja d'Aro.
On the C 17, traffic jams were also recorded in Ripoll, on another of the roads with more movement due to Easter displacements. On this same road there were 2 kilometers of queues in Lliçà de Vall. The C 16, one of the main access routes to the Pyrenees, presented 2 kilometers of congestion at the height of Cercs.
An accident aggravates the situation on the AP 7
An accident on the AP 7 between Olèrdola and Subirats, in Alt Penedès, caused 14 kilometers of queues in the southbound direction. As a result of the accident, two lanes of the highway were closed, although one of them was later able to be reopened.
The same AP 7 added other incidents of intense traffic in different sections. There were 5 kilometers of traffic jams in Montmeló in the northbound direction, 3 kilometers in Castellbisbal in the southbound direction, another 3 in Castellví de Rosanes also in the southbound direction and 3 more kilometers in Gelida.
The C 32 was not exempt from complications either. Another accident generated 4 kilometers of retentions between Castelldefels and Sitges.
More than 470,000 vehicles have already left Barcelona
The traffic volume confirms the magnitude of this exodus operation. Between 8:00 AM on Holy Thursday and 11:00 AM this Holy Friday, 470,498 vehicles have left the Barcelona metropolitan area. The figure is equivalent to 84% of the 560,000 displacements planned until 3:00 PM.
With this scenario, the Catalan road network maintains several simultaneous congestion points on the exit routes towards Girona, the coast and the interior, on a morning marked by high mobility and by the effects of accidents registered on motorways and main roads.