Haevy traffic in A4 highway, queues of up to 6 km at Lisert gate

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, AUG 17 - Autostrade Alto Adriatico recorded up to 3 thousand transits per hour towards Venice and up to 2,900 towards Trieste, because the counter-exodus on the A4 highway. Today traffic volumes are close to those of Saturday a year ago, when 180 thousand transits were touched at the end of the day.
    The expected wave of vehicles returning from Slovenia and Croatia was recorded at the Trieste/Lisert gate, with a maximum peak of about 6 kilometers queue around 2 p.m. and the passage of about 16 thousand vehicles, the Concessionaire reported. But Autostrade Alto Adriatico's cooperation with Dars in Slovenia worked. Vacationers were advised by variable message signs on alternative routes back to Italy, via the H4 (Podnanos-Vrtoiba) - A34 (Gorizia - Villesse) bypass. A traffic jam of 3 kilometers is currently at the Lisert barrier and nearly 8 thousand vehicles have entered Villesse so far. The cooperation with Dars is going to continue tomorrow and next weekend.
    Traffic on the A4 highway was very heavy today but no particular critical issues have occurred so far, Autostrade Alto Adriatico reported. (ANSA).