Summer holiday exodus could cause tailbacks over next few days
Thursday, August 1, 2013 @ 12:16 AM
TRAFFIC on Spain's roads has multiplied now August is about to start and many companies shut down for the month, making it the favourite time of the year for holidays.
Foreign and Spanish tourists rise in number around the beginning of August and traffic heading in the direction of the south and east coasts is likely to be extremely heavy.
Around 2.7 million cars will be on the roads between this evening (Wednesday) and the night of Thursday, August 1, although this may continue through the weekend.
The most congested highways will be those through the central region of Castilla-La Mancha as hundreds of thousands leave Madrid for the coasts and countryside, as well as the N-roads and motorways of the Comunidad Valenciana, Murcia, and Andalucía.
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