Exodus and counter-exodus together, traffic on AA Highway

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 19 AGO - Heavy traffic with queues of several kilometers especially on the Trieste-Venice section in both directions. It is the Saturday of simultaneous exodus and counter-exodus on the Upper Adriatic Highway network, with new tourists traveling to tourist destinations (Lower Friuli and, across the border, Croatia) and vacationers who left in the past weeks returning to various regions of Italy, Austria and Germany especially. Around 12 noon there is a 4-kilometer queue at the Lisert barrier, exiting Trieste, is the mass return.
    But at the same Lisert barrier there is also a two-kilometer queue entering Trieste: these are precisely tourists going on vacation. In general, on the Autostrada AA network compared to the same Saturday last year, there is a 4 percent increase in transit vehicles, including 3 at Lisert. Also on the Trieste-Venice section, there are queues at times in the area of San Giorgio di Nogaro and San Stino with average transits of 2,500/2,700 vehicles per hour.
    Queues formed in Latisana both inbound - they are those going to the beach - and outbound - they are tourists returning home.
    It is presumable that at the end of the day the number of 190 thousand vehicles transited will be reached. About two weeks ago on exodus days there was an increase in transits of 5 percent; the same increase is being recorded in these hours but in the opposite direction, for the return precisely. Thanks to the entry into operation of the new section of the third lane, on the A23 Palmanova-Tarvisio, which connects Udine with Austria, there are no traffic jams, despite the 2,300 transits per hour.
    (ANSA).