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Barcelona’s Sant Joan Traffic Operation Sees 16-Kilometre Queues on AP-7

Traffic authorities have opened an extra AP-7 lane alongside new heavy-vehicle limits to relieve delays before the June 24 return

Tráfico intenso por la AP-7 a su paso por Bellaterra.
El camión incendiado en Santa Perpètua de Mogoda en la AP-7

Overview

  • By 21:00 on Friday some 191,400 vehicles—41% of the 470,000 expected—had departed the Barcelona metropolitan area
  • Tailbacks on the AP-7 topped 16 km, while ring roads and regional routes saw stand-still congestion of up to 9 km
  • Servei Català de Trànsit has added a dedicated lane on the AP-7 and imposed 80 km/h caps with right-lane rules for trucks
  • Mossos d’Esquadra and local police launched intensified alcohol and drug checkpoints as crews tackled a truck fire and a student bus’s air-conditioning failure
  • Rail services between Tarragona and Torredembarra remain suspended ahead of an anticipated 260,000-vehicle return on Tuesday, June 24