The peak is expected from next week, after the mid -August, but what is the highlight of the summer in the city has opened with a first appetizer of the traffic of vacationers. One morning that recorded exodus and counter -exodus at the same time, between traffic arriving towards Sicily and vacationers who leave the island instead. Holidays that begin for someone and that for others end up, therefore arrivals and departures that translate into traffic to the board by the strait.
From the middle of the morning municipal police committed to managing the viability near the Rada San Francesco, where traffic was intensified both in the direction of embarkation and for those who instead landed in the city. Caronte & Tourist has activated the emergency phase and is operating with 6 ships in line between the two sides, but the situation is under control and no particular problems have been recorded. The commander of the municipal, Giovanni Giardina, ordered a fixed patrol at the intersection between Viale della Libertà and Viale Carousel, others are operational according to the needs that are gradually manifested. In the streets of the center that lead to the boarding, both public and private, already placed all the signs to direct the traffic, in recent days in the prefecture the plan for the viability has been launched that defines all the measures to be taken, especially in view of what will be the counter -exemption after mid -August.
The plan that will be adopted is that already experienced in the Utlimi two years and which provides four phases of intervention, depending on the trend of traffic and the integration of the main axes towards the boarding. The Municipality has already ordered that the extraordinary measures that concern the avenue of freedom that from 11 to 16 will only be intended for the means that must be embarked on the ships of Caronte Tourist will start from 16 August and will be in force. Measures that could also be anticipated according to what traffic will be already in these days.