Still inconvenience due to the snow and frost that are continuing to afflict the centre-north of the country, while in the south temperatures are gradually rising. If today, Friday, unlike what happened on Monday, the high-speed trains guaranteed 100% of the journeys, great inconveniences are instead occurring on some motorways due to the freezing rain: in particular the A1 motorway was closed in both directions from Milan to Sasso Marconi, shortly after Bologna in a southerly direction. Some stretches of other motorways in Emilia Romagna have also been closed to traffic: the A13, A14 motorways and the A1-A14 Bologna-Casalecchio junction, in both directions (full details on CCISS Travel Informed).
It was instead the A4 motorway reopened at 12 between the toll booths of Sestri Levante and La Spezia closed yesterday evening due to ice. It stays instead traffic on the alternative Aurelia road of the Bracco pass which connects the provinces of Genoa and La Spezia is not recommended due to the frost. Yesterday evening many motorists and truck drivers were blocked for hours along the Via Aurelia on the Bracco pass, in the Spezzino area, due to the ice that formed on the road to freeze, after a day of intense snowfall and sub-zero temperatures.
However, it continues to snow in a large part of the North: in Liguria, even after the reopening of the stretches, snowfalls are still reported, with queues and inconveniences. The stretch between Deiva Marina and Moneglia was closed on the Aurelia between Genoa and Ventimiglia. It has started snowing again in Milan too: closed some exits of the ring road, but without particular problems on the road system.
As for the trains, high speed is smooth but the railway traffic suspended on the Genoa-Milan, Genoa-Turin, Genoa-Savona and Parma-La Spezia lines with great inconvenience for thousands of commuters: the gelicide froze the electric power lines of the trains, communicates Rfi. In Emilia Romagna and Veneto, where an 80% offer was expected for today, trains are also traveling in higher percentages. On the remaining regional network traffic proceeds regularly.
Meanwhile, the tragic toll of the wave of bad weather that hit all of Europe since last Sunday has risen to 55 dead. The BBC reports it. The most serious situation in Poland, where at least 21 people died from freezing – mostly homeless –. Seven more died in Slovakia and six in the Czech Republic. Three victims in Spain, 5 in Lithuania, 4 in France, two in Serbia, Italy, Slovenia and Romania . One dead in Britain.
