The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) ordered this Thursday Do not travel to the province of Valencia during the Todos los Santos bridge, since many of the roads in this area are not authorized for circulation due to the damage that has affected them.
As explained by Traffic, the lanes that are opened to traffic will be from priority use for emergency services and for the provision of goods and services to the affected municipalities. Likewise, it has been recalled that DANA has not finishedand that this Thursday the alerts from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) for rain with a red level in Castellon.
In this sense, the DGT appeals to the responsibility of citizens when traveling by road and to reduce them to the exclusively necessary “given the situation that is being experienced in an important part of the country due to the devastating effects of DANA.” At the same time, the citizens of the Valencian province themselves have received an alert on their phones asking them to avoid traveling on roads.
There are still numerous roads that remain closed due to the rain, since have been left impassable due to the collapse of some of them –as in the connection of the A-7 highway with the A-3-, due to the accumulation of accident vehicles and the sediments dragged and accumulated on the asphalt. Given this situation, the DGT recommendation is not to travel from any area of ​​Spain to the province of Valencia.
The A-3 and A-7 are still closed to traffic
The two high-capacity roads that lead to the Valencian capital, the A-3 and the A-7 are still closed to traffic in several sections and also along these roads as they pass through the towns of Picassent, La Alcudia, Requena, Buñol, Paterna, Alzira and Chiva there are numerous vehicles damaged on the road, their removal pending, and The same occurs with the Mediterranean highway at the links with the A-3.
Since Wednesday it has been moving to vehicles to the sides of the roads to clear lanes as a previous step to cleaning them and this Thursday the work to remove them has already begun, but it is a task that will take days.
The DGT has explained that in the province of Valencia the A-7 is closed as it passes through Sagunto towards Alicante, through Simetes and through Carrascalet and the A-3 in Chiva, in addition to another 70 conventional roads.
In the of Castellon The CV-130 in Albocasser-Tirig, the CV-137 in CÃ lig, the CV-1486 in El Borseral and the CV-200 in Almedijar-AÃn are closed.
Incidents in other provinces
In addition, the heavy rains have also caused incidents in traffic on roads in Cuenca, Guadalajara, Cádiz, Granada, Málaga, Seville, Teruel and Zaragoza.
In Andalusia there are 23 roads affected: 13 in Cádiz, 7 in Seville and 3 in Granada, and in Castilla-La Mancha Cuenca is the most affected province, specifically the A-3 as it passes through Minglanilla and Atalaya de Cañavate and the CM-215 in Landete, while in Guadalajara they are GU-952 and 958 in Luzaga-Cortes de Tajuña and Terraza-Corduente, respectively.
In Aragon There are two conventional roads that cannot be traveled on in the province of Teruel, the TE-28 in Blancas-Odón and the TE-V-6016 in Villaespesa. In Zaragoza, the cuts affect four roads, the A-202 in Monasterio de Piedra, the A-1506 in Viren de Herrera and Herrera de los Navarros, the A-1105 in Pina de Ebro-Gelsa and the A-1506 in Badules, while traffic on National Highway 2 as it passes through Pina de Ebro-Bujaraloz is conditioned by the rainfall.
Traffic recommends, and more so in this episode of rain, iFind out about the state of the roads before and during the trip on theirwww.dgt.es either https://infocar.dgt.es/etraffic/) in order to avoid unforeseen events and use alternative itineraries