With the arrival of September, summer is now coming to an end. Although many Italians have chosen to postpone their holidays to avoid excessive crowds and record heat, the first weekend of the month officially marks the end of the summer exodus: the Anas Road Mobility Observatory forecasts over 27 million movements between Friday the 4th and Sunday the 6th on the roads and highways of the Fs Group company. Traffic will be particularly heavy over the weekend, so much so that Viabilità Italia has announced a red alert for Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
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The counter-exodus
“With this weekend the summer travel season comes to an end,” announced Anas CEO Claudio Andrea Gemme. The first weekend of September will indeed see a real counter-exodus. Millions of vehicles will flood the roads to return from holiday resorts to the major urban centers across the country.
Although traffic will intensify throughout the peninsula, flows will mainly concern the main routes connecting tourist locations and large urban centers, from the Mediterranean Highway (the A2, which crosses Campania, Basilicata, and Calabria) to state roads 106 Jonica and 18 Tirrena Inferiore, two of Calabria’s main coastal arteries. Exceptional traffic flows are also expected in Sicily, on the A19 Palermo-Catania and A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo highways, and in Sardinia, along state road 131 Carlo Felice.
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But even in Central and Northern Italy, traffic will increase significantly, especially on state road 148 Pontina in Lazio, which together with SS7 Appia ensures connections between Rome and the tourist destinations of southern Lazio. The counter-exodus will also affect the E45 route, which connects the Northeast with Central Italy, and the SS1 Aurelia (Lazio, Tuscany, and Liguria), SS16 Adriatica (Apulia, Molise, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna, and Veneto) routes.
In the North, the junctions where the greatest criticalities are expected are the RA13 and RA14 highway links in Friuli-Venezia Giulia from the border crossings, the SS36 of Lake Como and Spluga in Lombardy, the SS45 of Val Trebbia in Liguria, the SS26 of the Aosta Valley, the SS309 Romea between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto, and the SS51 Alemagna in Veneto.
