Atlantia says traffic last week on its Italian road network was down 80%

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian infrastructure group Atlantia said on Wednesday that last week traffic on the motorway network it runs in Italy fell 79.7% year-on-year.

Motorway traffic was down 81.8% on its Spanish motorways and 83.5% on the French highways it operates, the group said.

The group also said that the number of passengers traveling to and from its Italian airports – Rome’s Fiumicino and Ciampino – fell 98.7% last week compared with the same period last year.

The Italian government imposed a lockdown on the whole country on March 9 to rein in contagion from the novel coronavirus.

(Reporting by Francesca Landini, editing by Giulia Segreti)