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DGT Manages Easter Return Traffic as Catalan Incidents Trigger Closures

Real-time DGT tools guide drivers through staggered returns.

Overview

  • Spain’s holiday traffic plan, now in its second phase through midnight on 6 April, targets more than 17 million trips across the road network.
  • A vehicle fire shut the A-2 at El Bruc toward Lleida, and Trànsit told drivers to exit earlier for the N-II.
  • A multi-vehicle crash on the AP-7 near Llinars del Vallès forced a roughly 40-minute closure, with queues reaching up to 12.5 kilometers.
  • The DGT’s live road map shows closures, congestion, weather and controls in real time, using black for closed, red for slow traffic, yellow for incidents and green for clear roads.
  • To ease the staggered returns to Barcelona’s metro area, where authorities expect about 590,000 vehicles by Easter Monday, the DGT urges careful planning and checks via @informacionDGT, @DGTes or 011.