The AP-7 motorway has reopened between Martorell and Sant Sadurní after three weeks.

BarcelonaThe AP-7 motorway southbound, between Martorell and Sant Sadurní, has reopened completely open to traffic The line reopened at 3:00 AM this morning, according to the director of the Catalan Traffic Service, Ramon Lamiel. It reopened after being closed to traffic for three weeks. The line was closed in this section on January 21st, the day after the fatal commuter train accident in Gelida that killed a young trainee driver. upon colliding with a retaining wall under the AP-7

Due to the risk of subsidence in this section and to facilitate the work of the heavy machinery needed to reinforce the collapsed slope, the AP-7 southbound motorway was closed from the old Martorell toll plaza to the Sant Sadurní d'Anoia exit.

With the AP-7 now open, the C-32 toll road, which had been suspended to alleviate traffic, will be reinstated. However, drivers will have a 24-hour grace period, and the toll barriers will not return to this Garraf road until Monday night, according to ACN.

Lamiel explained that the reopening took place in the early morning hours for safety reasons, as this is when there is less traffic and when the removal of the cones and Jersey barriers used to reorganize traffic, as well as the repainting of the lanes, is quicker and safer. Furthermore, the head of Traffic also praised the positive response to the alternative routes on the AP-7 to divert the traffic that this main artery, which crosses Catalonia from north to south, normally handles. During this period of restrictions, the use of the C-15 and A-2 has been recommended, and tolls have been lifted on the C-32, the Garraf motorway, which has seen double its usual traffic.