The main traffic problems are recorded, is situated on the highway A7 from Lyon to Marseille, and A10 between Paris and Bordeaux.
the sun was overwhelming, the chassé-croisé between “juillettistes” and “aoûtiens” has not breached the rule, with a peak of caps accumulated, a 760-kilometer on Saturday, the first day of the been classified as black in the sense of departures. “The peak of the caps has been reached at 12: 10 pm with an accumulation of caps at the national level, a 760-kilometer,” said Bison futé in a press release.
The situation is “in line with expectations,” says the site traffic information. The peak is comparable to the Saturday equivalent of 3 August 2019 (762 km), and higher on Saturday 25 July 2020 (609 km). The main traffic problems are recorded, is situated on the highway A7 from Lyon to Marseille, and A10 between Paris and Bordeaux. A record unexpected of 955 km of traffic jams were recorded 3 weeks ago. Never been seen in July.
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This Saturday is also classed red at national level in the sense of returns. “Journey times have more than doubled Saturday on the A7 compared to the normal, in particular, to Orange, Valence and Montélimar,” said the site traffic information to the AFP. With this circulation is overloaded in the descent of the valley of the Rhône from the south of Lyon to Orange, the time course were, for example, to a midi 05h10 instead of 1h30 usual. Alternative routes have been put in place.
An accident has also led Saturday morning the cut-off of the A89 on the Bordeaux-Lyon axis. And the mercury starts to move up, with temperatures of 36 to 41 degrees, from the valley of the Rhone to the two departments of savoy, made it even more painful the road vacation. Thirteen departments were always placed Saturday mid-day in vigilance orange heat wave by Météo France : Ain, Ardèche, Côte-d’or, Doubs, Drôme, Isère, Jura, Loire, Haute-Loire, the Rhône, the Saône-et-Loire, Savoie and Haute-Savoie.
“We control his nerves”
Many motorists followed the safety advice of Bison futé by time caps and heat: avoid walking during the hottest hours of the day, between noon and 16: 00, to protect the vehicle from the sun, drink water regularly and be particularly attentive to the passengers the most vulnerable, children and the elderly. “We’ll stop as often as possible, as soon as the kids ask, and we try to hydrate a maximum, so that everyone has a little bit of fun on the road”, explains to the AFP Fabrice, motorist Nancy en route to le Grau-du-Roi (Gard), which was a stop on the area of Saint-Rambert-d’albon in Drôme.
“We control his nerves, one patient, one stops on the rest areas for the little ones, it is important. We hydrate and rest when you can,” says Nassim, Saint-Étienne, departing to the South. Today, “nearly 180 000 vehicles are expected to be on the network” motorway, explains to the AFP Morgane Sauzay, head of business and communication, Vinci Autoroutes, which is present on the same rest area.
During this big day of traffic, in particular in the Rhône valley and, in particular, on the A7 motorway in both directions of movement, “the most critical hour is between noon and 15: 00, where everyone goes out on the road, as well the people who go down as those who go back”, she adds. For returns, Bison futé has also provided roads charged Saturday in the South-West, with difficulties on the A10 at the height of Bordeaux, and between Bordeaux and Niort.
