The new three-lane section of the A1 between Barberino di Mugello and Firenze Nord opened at 11.45 this morning. Users heading towards Florence, having reached Calenzano, find themselves traveling continuously along the new motorway platform and then crossing the Santa Lucia tunnel, the largest three-lane tunnel in Europe.
The new route, explains Aspi who carried out the work, “represents the natural path of the Variante di Valico, a strategic work for the country’s viability, an avant-garde project from an engineering and technological point of view worth over 1 billion The work is located in a fundamental hub of the motorway network that welcomes on average up to 100 vehicle transits per minute, the increase in capacity of the carriageway leads to a reduction in travel times of 30% “.
Starting at 8 pm yesterday, the section, Aspi explains, “had been closed to allow the last operations to connect the new carriageway to the original A1 route, as activities related to the paving, signage and assembly of the side barriers. opening had created a long line of waiting motorists “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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