Anas has increased staff deployment across Italy ahead of the second black-alert weekend of summer 2026, which comes before Ferragosto week and coincides with the shutdown of most of the country’s economic activity. Until 7 September, 1,175 roadworks sites will remain closed or suspended, equal to 83% of the 1,414 currently active. According to estimates by the Osservatorio Mobilità Stradale di Anas (Anas Road Mobility Observatory), more than 25 million car journeys are expected between today and Sunday 9 August on the roads and motorways operated by the FS Group company.
The traffic calendar indicates a black alert on the morning of Saturday 8 August and a red alert on the afternoons of Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August. Departures from major urban centres for short weekend breaks towards holiday and seaside destinations will be concentrated this afternoon and on Saturday morning, while return journeys towards cities are expected on Sunday afternoon. The traffic ban for industrial vehicles is in force today, Friday 7 August, from 16.00 to 22.00, on Saturday 8 August from 8.00 to 22.00, and on Sunday 9 August from 7.00 to 22.00.
The increase in traffic will particularly affect tourist routes: the A2 Autostrada del Mediterraneo, which crosses Campania, Basilicata and Calabria; the SS106 Jonica and SS18 Tirrena Inferiore state roads in Calabria; the A19 Palermo-Catania and A29 Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorways in Sicily; the SS131 Carlo Felice in Sardinia; the SS148 Pontina in Lazio, which together with the SS7 Appia links Rome to tourist destinations in southern Lazio; the E45 route, including the SS675 and SS3 bis, through Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and the north-east; and the SS1 Aurelia, between Lazio, Tuscany and Liguria, and SS16 Adriatica, between Apulia, Molise, Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. In the north, the affected routes include motorway links 13 and 14 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia towards the border crossings, the SS36 del Lago di Como e dello Spluga in Lombardy, the SS45 di Val Trebbia in Liguria, the SS26 della Valle d’Aosta, the SS309 Romea between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto, and the SS51 di Alemagna in Veneto.
Since 4 August, the new Vergilius Plus average-speed control systems have also been active in cooperation with Polizia Stradale (Traffic Police) on 36 sections of the Anas network. Twenty-six of these are on the A2, covering about 100 kilometres of the Campania section between Salerno and Buonabitacolo. The other monitored sections are on the SS309 Romea in the Ravenna area, from kilometre 1.680 to 7.080; the SS1 Via Aurelia in the metropolitan area of Rome, from kilometre 11.950 to 23.500; the SS7 quater Via Domitiana at Pozzuoli, in Campania, from kilometre 44.630 to 54.300; and the SS145 Variante Sorrentina, inside the Santa Maria di Pozzano tunnel, from kilometre 0.072 to 4.950.
