The Catalan highways this Good Friday add about 120 kilometers of traffic jams, with special incidence on the AP-7, which is complicating the operation leaving Barcelona, ​​according to data from the Servei Català de Trà nsit.
Some 351,000 vehicles have left the Barcelona metropolitan area between 3:00 p.m. on Thursday and 2:00 p.m. this Friday due to the departure operation for Easter, 92.4% of the 380,000 expected until 3:00 p.m., when the departure operation ends. this holy Week.
These 351,000 vehicles are 3% less than those that left in the same equivalent period of 2022, the Catalan Traffic Service (SCT) has reported.
The peak of traffic jams for this exit operation was recorded at 12 noon, when the Catalan highways have accumulated a total of 120 kilometers of traffic jams, and “now the queues are going down” and some 30,000 vehicles have left the Catalan capital.
The main traffic jams are taking place on the AP-7, where there is intense traffic with traffic jams for about 17 kilometres, between Santa Perpetua de la Mogoda and La Roca and Llinars, northbound.
There are also about 25 kilometers of slow traffic with delays on the AP-7 between Sant Cugat del Vallés and Castellvà de Rosanes, southbound.
Traffic reports delays on the C-16, between Berga and Cercs; on the C-32 north, between Vilassar and Argentona; on the same C-32, but in a southerly direction, between Gavà and Sitges; in the C-65/C-35, in Llagostera; and on the N-340, in El Vendrell.
