The improvement in the weather this Saturday noon, after the intense rains that fell on Catalonia all night and this morning, has finally encouraged many drivers to leave the bridge of Todos los Santos, already at 3:00 p.m. they had left Barcelona and its metropolitan area 87.8% of the vehicles provided by the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT). A total of 425,987, as announced this afternoon.
The exit operation began at 3:00 p.m. on Friday and at the same time today it has been terminated, with a balance somewhat lower than the 485,000 vehicles that were initially expected to leave the city. The fate of many of them is rural and inland tourism, which according to the Government have reached a high occupancy, reaching full.
The bad weather had left many plans in the air, since until 1:00 p.m. today about 363,090 had left the metropolitan area of Barcelona. But in the following two hours, coinciding with the cessation of the rain, a good number of more cars have ended up leaving the city until almost reaching 88% of the forecasts.
Traffic jam morning
During the morning, apart from the roads blocked by accidents or incidents, the most important traffic problems have been registered on the AP-7 motorway, with 11 kilometers of retentions between the old Martorell toll and Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, in direction Tarragona, and another eight kilometers of caravan between Mollet and Granollers, in the direction of Girona, according to the SCT.
The same sources have added that during the morning, traffic has also been complicated on the C-17, C-16, and C-14 highways, which connect with mountain destinations.
As the rain has swept over the Catalan territory, Trànsit has asked drivers to be very cautious on social networks in the face of the risk of suffering an accident.
For Monday, November 1, Trànsit estimates that between 12 noon and midnight, some 265,000 vehicles will return to the first metropolitan ring of Barcelona.
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The CEO of Tourism of the Generalitat, Marta Domènech, has celebrated the “extremely good figures” of hotel occupancy that are registered during this bridge, mainly in the interior in establishments of type rural, where they are reached 100% occupations.
In statements to channel 3/24, he pointed out that the main Catalan cities – he mentioned Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona – also have good occupations during these three days, despite the many hotels still closed in the Catalan capital (34% ). He is confident that the return of face-to-face congresses in the city will boost the recovery of all activity in the short term.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com