FROM THE A27 BELLUNO-VENICE ‘SALTO’ DIRECT TO THE A4 BRESCIA PADOVA: NOW IT’S DONE

Here is the interconnection of the Venetian Pedemontana highway. Zaia: relieves the burden on municipalities and halves travel times

VENICE – From 8am on Saturday 4 May it will be possible to go directly from the A27 Belluno-Venice to the A4 Brescia-Padua thanks to the connection of the Pedemontana Veneta highway onto the A4. With the opening to transit of the last 1,200 metres, the itinerary of the Pedemontana Veneta is completed which includes 94.5 kilometers of regional highway and 68 kilometers of new free roads. An infrastructure cost 2.3 billion euros which crosses 36 municipalities with 14 toll booths” and will provide an outlet for all the Venetian fabric of businesses and workers in the Bassano, Vicenza and Treviso areas, with a halving of the recovery times. travel, the alleviation of traffic on the Schiavonesca-Marosticana, less pollution and greater road safety. A work which among the new infrastructures is the one with the lowest tolls at a national level”, says the president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, today. at the opening ceremony of the interconnection of the A4 Brescia-Padova with the Superstrada Pedemontana Veneta.

A HIGHWAY OF 50,000 VEHICLES PER DAY, ZAIA: SERVES

To date, 50,000 vehicles pass through the highway per day with an increase in traffic estimated between 15 and 20 percent “and an expected break-even between costs and revenues in nine years”, adds Zaia. “An infrastructure that constitutes a significant strengthening of the Mediterranean corridor of the Ten-T network for the macro-regional and trans-national flow of goods for the productive development of Veneto”. The infrastructure is part of a broader plan of interventions by A4 Holding lasting four and a half years, which will see the opening to traffic of the new Montecchio Maggiore bus station at the end of June 2024, the completion of the car park adjacent to the toll booth by July and, by the end of the year, the reorganization of the external road system outside the old Montecchio toll booth.