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Date Published: 14/08/2024

When and where traffic will be heaviest this bank holiday weekend in Murcia

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The police are getting ready for a busy puente on the roads with special controls and traffic diversions

When and where traffic will be heaviest this bank holiday weekend in Murcia

This Thursday, August 15, is a ‘festivo’ or bank holiday in all of Spain for the Catholic Feast of the Assumption. Many people will take the Friday off too so they can have a four-day weekend or ‘puente’ to get away for a break, meaning that traffic going towards the coast on Wednesday night and Thursday morning will be heavier than usual, as will the traffic heading back inland towards the large cities on Sunday night, August 18.

As such, Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) is launching a series of measures to “regulate, organise and monitor traffic at national level”.

From 3pm on Wednesday until midnight on Sunday, they estimated that 8,290,000 vehicles will travel on the country’s roads, and in the Region of Murcia there will be 400,407 journeys made, 5% of the total.

The DGT recommends planning journeys ahead of time to avoid the days and times when there are more vehicles on the roads, which are the following:

At these times, controls will be set up on the main roads around the Region of Murcia, with the Guardia Civil mobilising “approximately 200 agents who will attend to traffic regulation tasks”.

“In addition, they will have fixed and stretch speed control points, 7 mobile radar units, as well as aerial support (helicopters and drones),” they have said.

Which roads will be busiest in Murcia

The DGT also outlined which areas of Murcia are likely to get the most traffic this long weekend, namely:

On Wednesday/Thursday

A-7 around kilometre 567 towards Algeciras and the junction with A-30 at kilometre 135
AP-7 at kilometre 782, junction with RM-19, towards Alicante
A-30 at kilometre 135, with junction A-7 at kilometre 570

On Sunday

A7 at kilometre 570, towards Tarragona and the junction with A-30 at kilometre 138
A-30 at kilometre 136.5 towards Albacete
RM-12 at kilometre km 0, junction with AP-7 and CT-32
A-30 at kilometre 135, with junction A-7 at kilometre 570

There will also be “special planning measures” taken, with the Guardia Civil closing or redirecting certain lanes of traffic to aid the free flowing of vehicles:

On Wednesday/Thursday

On the A-30 there will be cones in the lanes from kilometre point 135 going in the direction of Cartagena up until to kilometre point 135.3 to prevent vehicles coming from Albacete way from crossing into the lanes coming from Alicante on the A-7
On the A-30 at kilometre 136.7, they will close the lane coming from the N-301a (Molina de Segura towards Cartagena), so as not to interrupt the circulation of vehicles that intend to access the A-7 motorway, towards Almería

On Sunday

Junction coming from the A-7 to the A-30 at kilometre 570, the right-hand lane of the A-30 towards Albacete will be cut to add it to the A-7

For real-time information on traffic in Spain, the DGT have a map which can be consulted to see the incidents and traffic jams at any given moment:

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Images: DGT

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