{"id":18858,"date":"2023-05-13T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.1517.html"},"modified":"2023-05-13T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T00:00:12","slug":"hgv-restrictions-in-catalonia-obligation-to-use-the-right-lane-and-no-overtaking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/hgv-restrictions-in-catalonia-obligation-to-use-the-right-lane-and-no-overtaking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HGV restrictions in Catalonia: obligation to use the right lane and no overtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"ui header\">\n<div class=\"sub header\">The Catalan Transit Directorate has announced its proposed HGV restrictions, some of which have caused controversy in recent years.<\/div>\n<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-size:1.1rem\">After the abolition of tolls on the AP-7 in September 2021, the Catalan Transit Directorate decided that on Sundays and holidays lorries should keep a speed limit of 80 km\/h, only use the right lane and are not allowed to overtake. According to the proposal, on some sections of the AP-7 these restrictions would apply every day.<br \/>\nProposed HGV restrictions on the AP-7:<br \/>\n\u2022 an obligation to use the right lane on the 30km section of the AP-7 between Calafat and Camarles on all days of the week;<br \/>\n\u2022 an obligation to use the right lane on the Martorell-Gelida section when the speed limit of 100 km\/h is in effect from Friday to Sunday;<br \/>\n\u2022 a driving ban on all weekends and other public holidays in July;<br \/>\n\u2022 a driving ban when exiting the metropolitan ring and an obligation to use the right lane in the AP-7 section between Martorell and La Roca on Fridays and evenings before holidays;<br \/>\n\u2022 a driving ban on Sundays on motorway sections where additional lanes in the opposite direction have been set up and the obligation to use the right lane and keep a speed limit of 80 km\/h.<br \/>\nSince lorries are not able to drive on national roads, despite the fact that traffic intensity on these roads has fallen after the abolition of tolls on the AP-7, the proposed measures have been criticised by road haulage associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan Transit Directorate has announced its proposed HGV restrictions, some of which have caused controversy in recent years. After the abolition of tolls on the AP-7 in September 2021, the Catalan Transit Directorate decided that on Sundays and holidays lorries should keep a speed limit of 80 km\/h, only use the right lane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avicegroup.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}