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00:00:02they plan to observe the
00:00:19AP-7, from Cambrils to the Ebro lands,
00:00:46Greetings again, good morning, 10:00 AM, 30 seconds, we go
00:00:50live to the Catalan Traffic Service, its director, Ramon
00:00:54Lamiel, is about to appear to report on the traffic plan due to
00:00:57tomorrow's eclipse, a traffic plan.
00:01:01the AP-7. This area of Yes,
00:01:04Tarragona, but especially this area of this highway AP-7, we are already listening live
00:01:06to the words of the director
00:01:09four moments when you can exit the of the Catalan Traffic Service, we will know first-hand the plan
00:01:12eh foreseen for tomorrow.
00:01:14Yes, one, two, three, come on, very good, good morning everyone,
00:01:19okay? The four valves of thanks for being here. Eh, we will discuss the
00:01:22Mar, L'Ampolla, at the height of plan we have prepared for tomorrow, the day of the eclipse. Some
00:01:26general tips for starters, general eh tips. The
00:01:29first general tip is to prepare, to plan, to inform yourselves about the state of
00:01:33traffic, this is basic. Do
00:01:36not stop on the roads, do not park on the roads, and therefore,
00:01:39especially at the time the eclipse approaches, do not stop, do not park on the
00:01:43roads. We will take special eh care and
00:01:45attention to ensure that people do not park on the AP-7 or the National
00:01:49340, which are important roads for
00:01:51us. Eh, the other
00:01:55advice is to leave with enough time, mm, therefore tomorrow a
00:01:59significant traffic intensity is expected, so leave with enough time
00:02:02and I think I'm forgetting some advice, but in any case the
00:02:06commissioner will also
00:02:07remind you.
00:02:13Important roads
00:02:36we recommend being very cautious
00:02:38area rather than long-distance on the AP-7 highway, okay? The AP-7 highway, especially the
00:02:42two-lane area of
00:02:43that vehicles do not stop on the verges or the Ebro, may suffer, eh, because it only has a capacity for two
00:02:47lanes. Therefore, we provide a series of alternative routes
00:02:51to go see the eclipse. The eclipse will be seen in Ponent, the Camp de Tarragona
00:03:21Ponent from Girona, what we recommend is the C25, which is the
00:03:25transversal. If you go down a little further to Martorell,
00:03:29the A2. Also to go to Ponent, therefore it is a place to go to
00:03:32see the eclipse, Ponent also.
00:03:36that area of the Ebro If you want to go to Tarragona, obviously continue on the AP-7. If you want to go to
00:03:39the Ebro, continue on the AP-7. But to go to Ponent, the C25 and the
00:03:42A2. When you reach the height of Sant Oliva, there at the height of Santa
00:03:46Oliva where you take the AP-2, there we will indicate that to
00:03:50go to Ponent, the law of Les Borges Blanques, Valls and
00:03:54ehm 10 hours from what would be Prades, although Prades is not official and people will
00:03:57go, we recommend the AP-2 as a... to reach
00:04:01these, these places. When you arrive at
00:04:04Tarragona, when you reach the height of Camp de Tarragona,
00:04:09of the Ebro lands and Camp de to move around Camp de Tarragona and towards the Ebro Lands, what we recommend is the
00:04:12A7, mm, the A7, especially what is Camp de
00:04:16Tarragona, Tarragonès and also Baix Camp.
00:04:19But we recommend the A7, not the AP-7. The AP-7 might already be a bit more
00:04:23loaded. When you continue going down, the
00:04:27A7 can be taken at the height of Torredembarra and the... height of Altafulla. Therefore,
00:04:30the A7 is also an alternative. When you reach the height of Tarragona, eh,
00:04:34when you find the T11, which is the one that distributes towards Reus,
00:04:38to go to Reus, Baix Camp, here comes the first tip. To go towards
00:04:42Móra d'Ebre or to go towards Terra Alta Gandesa, it is important to take the
00:04:46T11, the National
00:04:48and Manizales, in the middle of 420. It is better than the ones I just gave for not continuing on the AP-7. We must preserve
00:04:51the AP-7 for those going to the Ebro, preserve capacity for those going to
00:04:54the Ebro. In any case, Cambrils can also be reached
00:04:58with the AP-7, but it is for... triple the A7, as I told you, this alternative of
00:05:02the A7 is important. And when you reach the Ebro,
00:05:06eh, ehm, the
00:05:09Cambrils Anavall, it doesn't matter, from Hospitalet de AP-7 is reserved for all the influx
00:05:11to... the Ebro Delta. There are very magnetic points,
00:05:15very magnetic, such as the Ebro Delta, the Camp de Tarragona, the eclipse is seen very well,
00:05:19but the Ebro Delta also, eh, the eclipse is seen very well.
00:05:23Therefore, these are very magnetic points where I will
00:05:26now explain some special devices. This
00:05:32we also want to intervene in an important way
00:05:35to preserve its capacity. When I previously gave
00:05:39a general advice, which is not to park on the road here.
00:05:42We, on this AP-7, in the areas where the eclipse can be seen,
00:05:45will be very insistent, making rounds
00:05:49both our colleagues from the Mossos d'Esquadra and our vehicles
00:05:52so that people do not stop on the AP-7, do not stop
00:05:55on the AP-7, also on the National 340, but especially on the AP-7.
00:05:59Eh, we have identified the eclipse zones on this highway where
00:06:03the eclipse can be seen, so we will be very insistent
00:06:06eh to reserve ehm all the capacity for this
00:06:10highway on
00:06:13the Ebro, especially, also Camp de
00:06:16the Ebro, there are four valves, there are, there are
00:06:22highway and go towards
00:06:24the National 340, which is the one that will distribute all the traffic in
00:06:27what would be the Ebro Delta area,
00:06:31the AP-7 are in L'Ametlla de
00:06:35L'Aldea and at the height of Amposta. Here we will have a
00:06:38helicopter flight, we will have, eh, a
00:06:40helicopter team to monitor these valves and see
00:06:44if they need to be closed or opened. If an
00:06:48exit needs to be closed because it is getting congested and more
00:06:51traffic needs to be directed to other exits or vice versa, if there are exits from the south that
00:06:55are getting congested, ehm, we strongly recommend
00:06:58closing them and strongly recommend that people enter through the northernmost
00:07:02ones. That is, we will play with these four valves
00:07:06with the helicopter that will provide us with information
00:07:09with traffic measurement teams from the Catalan traffic
00:07:13service and with the traffic police colleagues who will be very present. The
00:07:17commissioner can describe these points more precisely,
00:07:20where there will be traffic regulation and therefore measures, but in general with
00:07:24dynamic and fixed patrols in those points that may have more
00:07:27conflict. Let's go for a moment to what
00:07:30is the Ebro Delta area, which is one of the areas
00:07:34that we pay more attention to because, eh,
00:07:38it can be the area, it is attractive, it is an area that at these
00:07:41moments has an... idyllic landscape and therefore the eclipse
00:07:45can be seen well. It may be the one that ends up
00:07:48assuming more population to see the eclipse. This area,
00:07:52we have prepared what is the North Ebro Delta, the
00:07:56northern part of the delta, a capillary strategy. If you
00:07:59arrive at Deltebre these points eh through certain
00:08:02roads that we will be signaling and
00:08:06we will be guiding from the national 340, if you have a bit of the
00:08:11Eh, there we will be guiding in a
00:08:15capillary way towards these
00:08:18Delta. That the North Ebro Delta will be the
00:08:22beaches of Riu Mar, the La Marquesa beach,
00:08:25Villabombita, etcetera, Camarles,
00:08:28L'Ampolla, all this we will be signaling with
00:08:31roads, eh, sorry, we will be signaling roads with our
00:08:35panels and with the presence of Mossos d'Esquadra eh, traffic
00:08:38police, colleagues from the Mossos d'Esquadra traffic police who will also be at...
00:08:42key points to divert traffic or to regulate traffic eh if
00:08:46necessary. If we go to the South Ebro Delta, what is the
00:08:50South Ebro Delta, which would be La Ràpita, eh, Sant Jaume
00:08:53d'Enveja, La Ràpita and eh
00:08:56Amposta, here Amposta has the Eucaliptos beach
00:08:59which is expected to have a lot of
00:09:02people to see the eclipse. Here there is a strategy, just as the north was
00:09:06capillary, these roads playing around, distributing traffic, the south
00:09:10is a circular strategy.
00:09:13Amposta and La Ràpita have agreed, so from La Ràpita
00:09:17there will only be one direction to go to the Trabucador, you will return by
00:09:21the road that goes to Amposta from above, and from
00:09:24Amposta you can go to Les Eucaliptus and return by the upper road. This means the road that is closer to
00:09:28the Ebro, eh, in Sant Jaume
00:09:31d'Enveja. Ehm, therefore, in the north,
00:09:35capillary, the North Ebro Delta, and in the south, circular, eh, which is
00:09:39a strategy to ehm, provide local mobility.
00:09:44To highlight that there is a weak point, which is Amposta,
00:09:47especially at the exit. And now we are talking about the exit. For the journey there, it's
00:09:50about planning, it's about scheduling, not parking
00:09:54on the verges, eh, keeping informed, etcetera,
00:09:58etcetera. Eh, for the exit, it's about enjoying
00:10:01perhaps these activities that have been prepared and that the exit is as
00:10:05staggered as possible. Therefore, it is also recommended, if
00:10:08possible, to postpone the exit and therefore to stagger it. Better,
00:10:12but now, for example, if we go to the delta and then we return north,
00:10:16in the Ebro delta there is a fragile point which is Amposta.
00:10:20Here we will have traffic regulation both from the Mossos d'Esquadra and ourselves in
00:10:23terms of resources, to try to ensure that all the people coming from the North
00:10:27Ebro Delta, from the northern part of the Delta, as well as from the southern part of the Delta, can take
00:10:31either the National 340 or the AP-7 highway there in
00:10:35Amposta and avoid, above all, and I want this to be clear,
00:10:38avoid them entering Amposta and congesting Amposta because the navigators
00:10:42are evil and will give options that we do not want these
00:10:45navigators to give. Therefore, we will be present and we will avoid
00:10:49unnecessary congestion. Amposta is true that the eclipse can also be seen in the
00:10:52Oriola industrial estate, but. We point out the Eucaliptus where
00:10:56there is even a capacity for 10,000 people in the Eucaliptus, okay?
00:11:00Ehm,
00:11:03further south there is Alcanar, there is Ulldecona, there is Santa Bàrbara, these are
00:11:06points where the eclipse can also be seen. Eh, these points are very
00:11:09programmed and I want to highlight and now I will return for a moment
00:11:13to the north because in the north there is also Montbrió del Camp, there is Cambrils
00:11:17and there is Constantí, which we have all visited, there is Torredembarra and
00:11:20Altafulla. I want to highlight all the work that the local entities, the
00:11:24city councils, have done. The local police forces
00:11:27to have a good strategy. This is very
00:11:30important for parking, for parking to be able to enter well and
00:11:34to be able to leave well. Here there is a parking strategy
00:11:37for displacement to the observation point which is very important.
00:11:41Here we have helped them, here we will also have
00:11:44eh, we will be very attentive to this parking if
00:11:48it becomes difficult, if there is a problem because there are many people who
00:11:52go at once, eh, because the... great enemy of
00:11:55traffic is basically ehm that intensity at a
00:11:59certain time that causes congestion at that time. No, here we
00:12:03also plan sometimes to cut off entrances if it is convenient
00:12:07to try to ehm prevent high-capacity roads from getting congested.
00:12:11I'll give some examples: Cambrils, if you don't enter the
00:12:15Cambrils observation area well, you can have a problem on the A7. We just
00:12:18gave the A7 as an alternative, if you don't enter well, we can have a problem on
00:12:21the A7. La Ametlla de Mar, if. We have many
00:12:25problems entering at a certain moment and at a certain
00:12:28peak, we can have a problem on the AP-7 highway
00:12:31because the eclipse observation area is close to the AP-7 highway.
00:12:35Therefore, here we will be very attentive and we will have means to cut off if
00:12:39necessary and prevent congestion on the AP-7
00:12:43highway. Ehm,
00:12:46I, eh, I think I have given the main, ehm,
00:12:50the main information that needed to be given, eh, these
00:12:54more general. One thing I also left out in the general information
00:12:57and that we are stressing is to have the car prepared
00:13:01because we are having many breakdowns and therefore breakdowns eventually cause congestion.
00:13:05Have the car prepared, remember to plan, leave
00:13:09with time and do not stop on the roads, especially, and
00:13:12inform yourselves, check the traffic status. We will have a communication strategy
00:13:15tomorrow, every x moments we will be giving
00:13:19information on how the
00:13:21review these general information on alternative routes. Eh,
00:13:25C25, A2 towards Ponent, AP2 for the
00:13:31the AP-7, A7 to the south and AP-7 for those from the Ebro,
00:13:34to reserve it. And lastly, and I finish, there will be
00:13:37truck restrictions. Here you have a slide projected that clearly
00:13:41states it: in the southbound direction there will be restrictions from 5 PM to
00:13:4512 AM to also provide more capacity, and in the northbound direction
00:13:49there will be a limitation on trucks that what we will do is
00:13:52that they can circulate but... they will be able to
00:13:55circulate on the right and at 80 km/h. And why is there no
00:13:59restriction in the northbound direction? The restriction in the northbound direction should have been
00:14:02done by the DGT in the Valencian Country area,
00:14:05but this has not been possible because the DGT has not
00:14:09wanted to impose restrictions. The Basque Country has done it, Navarra has done it, and we
00:14:13have done it. We have imposed the same restrictions from 5 to
00:14:1612, ehm and by not
00:14:19imposing these restrictions, trucks will go up. They will be informed that they have to
00:14:23go slowly and on the right, but trucks will go up, of course. We cannot
00:14:26remove them in Amposta nor can we remove them in L'Hospitalet de l'Infant because
00:14:30it is an eclipse zone, we would create a problem even worse. Therefore, we have to
00:14:34let them pass, but that they pass in an orderly fashion, calmly
00:14:38on the right, mm, this would be the final
00:14:41thesis. I finish here, I just want to, eh, I pass the floor to the
00:14:44commissioner. I also want to highlight, just as I have highlighted the role of local entities with
00:14:48the parking strategy, the strategies of local police for the
00:14:52observation points, the internal mobility of... these municipalities, I also want to
00:14:56highlight all the Mossos d'Esquadra traffic
00:14:59operation that the commissioner will now explain, which is
00:15:02an operation that I think is one of the most complete eh that we have done for
00:15:05singular events, and therefore we will be very attentive, very
00:15:09present on the road so that there is no, above all, any road
00:15:12safety problem. There will also be a reinforcement of tow trucks here to remove all
00:15:16the accidents that may
00:16:07most important.
00:16:48d'Esquadra traffic police who is going to complete the
00:16:52information on this operation, one of the most comprehensive
00:16:54for
00:16:56special events, as the director of the Catalan Traffic
00:17:00Service, Ramon Lamiel, informed us, very focused on
00:17:03avoiding collapses on the AP-7, this highway that...
00:17:08eh high capacity that connects with the
00:17:10south of the country which is where the eclipse will
00:17:14have a greater influx of visitors. Let's listen to the commissioner of the Mossos
00:17:18traffic police, an operation that will be composed of 700
00:17:21officers, of whom 180 will be traffic
00:17:24specialists. This operation will enter tomorrow into maximum alert
00:17:28and this eh and it will be
00:17:31coordinated from the coordination center that we will establish from the 112 in
00:17:34Reus. From traffic. It will serve as
00:17:38a special mobility device, coordinated with the Catalan Traffic Service and in which
00:17:42local police forces have also participated. This device has the priority
00:17:46of establishing, of guaranteeing the safety of people, guaranteeing public order as
00:17:50well as mobility. Traffic
00:17:52personnel will be distributed on the main
00:17:55roads, as well as on the secondary roads and those roundabouts and
00:17:59accesses to the municipalities, with a coordinated strategy with the local
00:18:02police that will distribute the flows towards the areas that have been established
00:18:06for parking. And it is important to follow
00:18:10the indications towards these parking areas and then
00:18:13to walk to the areas where various
00:18:17activities are programmed. It is important
00:18:21on the road network because they could obstruct the passage of
00:18:24emergency vehicles, whether for medical assistance, a fire or
00:18:28any other security incident, and also to follow
00:18:31the indications of the agents on the roads and the message
00:18:35panels that have been established to indicate
00:18:39alternative routes, as well as the recommendations for accessing the various
00:18:42municipalities and the areas where observation points have been
00:18:44established.
00:18:47It is also important that before leaving, people have planned their
00:18:50journey, checked the traffic conditions, and also
00:18:54have the vehicle refueled and properly
00:18:57maintained to be able to make the journey without any breakdowns that could complicate
00:19:00mobility. The security agents and traffic
00:19:04agents, as I said, will be located along the AP-7,
00:19:08the various secondary roads and also the roads that
00:19:11lead, as we said, to these observation points,
00:19:14coordinated with the local police to give directions
00:19:17to guide them to parking areas or to the
00:19:21indicated areas where parking is permitted. We insist that
00:19:24it is very important not to park on the verges or
00:19:28in areas that are not specially designated. Traffic agents
00:19:31will also check compliance with the
00:19:34restrictions and the, the sorry. Traffic agents will also
00:19:38check compliance with the restrictions and limitations for
00:19:42heavy vehicles, especially in the area, well,
00:19:46Tarragona upwards
00:19:49precisely so that heavy vehicles do not obstruct this
00:19:52mobility and the fluidity of traffic. This
00:19:56special mobility device, as I said, has been specifically coordinated with the Catalan
00:19:59Traffic Service, with the participation of the local police and municipalities, in
00:20:03order to establish a coordinated strategy that will be adjusted in real
00:20:07time from the coordination center, as I told you, which will be at
00:20:10112 in Reus, where all institutions will be present
00:20:14to coordinate any incident that may occur and to adapt those
00:20:17recommendation messages for the citizens.
00:20:21If there is a vehicle that stops, what infraction
00:20:24can be attributed to it and what penalty can be attributed, so to speak?
00:20:28It depends on the place, the moment and the fact it is causing. I insist that the objective is
00:20:32to guarantee that emergency vehicles can pass, well, in
00:20:35case precisely for this, to respond to a...
00:20:37health assistance and in this case, well, I don't want to say there is no price beyond the fine, what we have to do is responsible
00:20:41driving with awareness and that there are parking spaces that are specifically
00:20:45enabled and what is wanted is not to obstruct traffic so that
00:20:49everyone can get to the place where
00:20:52eclipse. Is there a forecast for vehicles, do you have any
00:20:56forecast, director?
00:20:57Let's see.
00:21:02I will explain some of the elements that we currently have on the
00:21:06table, ehm, we are observing to see if there is
00:21:10a significant
00:21:12departure south and that we can detect this significant
00:21:16departure. We have a vehicle counter in the Martorell area that we
00:21:20usually have and it is the one we are monitoring more directly, this
00:21:23vehicle counter. Yesterday there was an increase in the afternoon of
00:21:272% of vehicles compared to the previous week. It is important
00:21:31to compare with the previous week, which was a week that was closer to what this week was also
00:21:35in August, no? And therefore the comparison with last week is interesting,
00:21:39therefore a 2% increase. This is not very significant and there was some
00:21:42congestion in the afternoon which was, eh, a
00:21:46midday-afternoon congestion that was very clear.
00:21:50On Saturday morning, there was congestion on the A2, AP and AP-7 in
00:21:53Martorell, ehm, which
00:21:57usually happens on Saturday mornings. Therefore, well, there was a kind
00:22:01of symptom of a different
00:22:04departure than what we had last week, but not important or relevant at
00:22:08these moments. This in terms of detecting departures, today, for example, we are not
00:22:11detecting anything particularly significant or relevant, we are not
00:22:15detecting it. At the end of the day we will be able to say if this counter we have in
00:22:19Martorell has given any more information.
00:22:23What we do know is about some of the places that
00:22:26have been positioned as observation points, for
00:22:30example, this is not from the Camp de
00:22:33Tarragona area where there was a forecast of 2,500
00:22:36vehicles, eh, sorry, 2,500 people.
00:22:39At these moments they are having well a
00:22:43a they are already in a population that seems to be
00:22:47registered because there they have asked for registrations or... reservations of
00:22:503,050, so we are a little above and the
00:22:54vehicles that were planned 650 vehicles, we are
00:22:58above, we are at 700 something. Well,
00:23:01this, if it continues like this, could reach a little more, it is still
00:23:05one day left and therefore it could reach a little more. The news
00:23:09that I think this is also interesting to know is that almost
00:23:1260% of these people and these vehicles are from the
00:23:15region, they are not from outside the region. If we
00:23:19were to guide ourselves by this and extrapolate
00:23:22this to the other points, then we would have a more
00:23:25local mobility in the eclipse
00:23:28travel. But given that we don't know very
00:23:32well what will happen, we are now collecting,
00:23:36today we are collecting those city councils that have
00:23:40either some type of pre-reservation or that are
00:23:43registering calls of interest for the eclipse observation zones that
00:23:47can give us this information from...
00:23:50The information we have is also going this way, it is
00:23:53going a little this way. There is a little more interest than was
00:23:57expected without there being a
00:24:00flood of interest or possible
00:24:03visits, there is also this
00:24:06sensation that eh there are
00:24:08also a combination of people from outside and people from the area, eh, therefore,
00:24:12we are here eh, the, the, the
00:24:16what I told you, what we also know is what can transport. This
00:24:20highway on an August day, especially the AP-7 and especially
00:24:26Delta that is from Cambrils to Navall is what worries us most because there are only two
00:24:29lanes, no? There, the
00:24:32capacity of a highway like that with two lanes is 3,000
00:24:36vehicles per hour, if you have the highway
00:24:39operating in perfect conditions
00:24:447 in the morning until 7 in the evening to go see
00:24:47the eclipse the highway. It can
00:24:50transport more, meaning more than it usually carries in August, on a day
00:24:54like this, it can transport an additional
00:24:56eh 20,000 vehicles,
00:25:00eh, of those it transports during these 10 hours, it can
00:25:03transport an additional 20,000 vehicles compared to what it usually transports.
00:25:07August 12, okay? So
00:25:09this, uh, is what we should achieve, that these
00:25:1320,000 vehicles are not exceeded, that's why we are asking for it to be brought forward,
00:25:17for it to start earlier, for it to be scheduled. That everyone
00:25:21uses, well, perhaps some of these alternative routes I have recommended
00:25:25better, so as not to put pressure on this highway on P7.
00:25:28These are the figures we can give, that we know more or
00:25:32less, some of them with precision, like
00:25:35the highway. Additional lanes going down or up have
00:25:38been ruled out, uh, I understand they've been ruled out because the
00:25:42the points where you could open the lane and the point
00:25:46where you could, uh, merge the lane into its direction.
00:25:50They are not well conditioned, but there is another thing that made us
00:25:53rule it out. Those going down, imagine that from
00:25:59l'Infant we decide to open a lane to... those going down
00:26:03and we give them a lane from the opposite direction, right? Those from the opposite direction
00:26:07who have two lanes, we take one from them. Of course,
00:26:10we would turn the highway into a conventional road, with the trucks that
00:26:14are there, that would already generate congestion, but imagine that we are willing
00:26:18to assume it.
00:26:20When you go down and you give the lane in the opposite direction to those
00:26:23going down, there comes a point where you have to make them re-enter their direction of
00:26:27travel. To do this you would have to take a lane from those
00:26:30going down, whatever the congestion, that... the ones going down would be superior to the
00:26:34benefit of an additional lane, I don't know if I've explained myself, but that's why we've
00:26:37ruled it out, because we would cause more harm than
00:27:07The press conference that the director of the Catalan Traffic Service, Ramón Lamiel,
00:27:11is attending about this special device
00:27:14due to tomorrow's eclipse, restrictions, uh,
00:27:1812 at night. A lot of concern about
00:27:21this AP7 highway. The traffic director has given different
00:27:25alternatives depending on where the
00:27:29vehicles are heading. Uh, 700 uh, traffic officers of... Mossos
00:27:32will control this
00:27:35uh, departure operation, so to speak, to
00:27:38see the eclipse. It especially worries the
00:27:41final stretch of this AP7, the one that goes from Cambrils to the
00:27:45Ebro lands, which, uh, is only two lanes per
00:27:49direction. We will immediately expand this and other information.
00:30:36132 dead and 570 injured, is the provisional toll of
00:30:40victims of the strong earthquake in Colombia that has rattled a large number
00:30:44of buildings.
00:30:47The earthquake has affected cities like Pereira
00:30:51the so-called coffee axis, an area highly visited by tourists. There is no
00:30:54record of any Catalans
00:30:55affected. All ready.