More than 457,000 vehicles had returned to the Barcelona metropolitan area until 7 p.m. this Monday in the Easter return operation.

This figure represents 77.5% of the forecast of 590,000 cars that must return between Sunday and this Easter Monday until midnight, as reported by the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT).

Despite this high volume and the rains that made the special operation difficult on Sunday, this return operation has ended up being more fluid than last year, according to the SCT.

Although at noon traffic jams totaling 43 kilometers had been reported throughout Catalonia, most of them on the AP-7, in 2023 there were 107. Likewise, the retention time has decreased by 23% compared to a year ago. , also according to the data provided by Trànsit.

This organization had not confirmed any accidents with fatalities on the Catalan road network since the beginning of this Holy Week in that statement.