From the A27 Belluno-Venice direct ‘jump’ to the A4 Brescia-Padua: 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 meters the itinerary of the Venetian foothills which includes 94.5 kilometers of regional highway and 68 kilometers of new free roads. An infrastructure costing 2.3 billion euros that crosses 36 municipalities with 14 toll booths “and will allow us to provide an outlet for all the Venetian fabric of businesses and workers in the Bassano, Vicenza and Treviso areas, with a halving of travel times, the alleviation of traffic on the Schiavonesca-Marosticana, less pollution and greater safety road. 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-Padua with the Pedemontana Veneta highway.

A HIGHWAY WITH 50,000 VEHICLES PER DAY, ZAIA: IT IS NECESSARY

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 roads outside the old Montecchio toll booth.