SMART BISON AUGUST 4-7 A dark weekend on the roads of France, especially for the day of Saturday, the traffic forecasts.
[Updated Aug 4, 2023 12:00 PM] Going on vacation this weekend? Know that you are not the only ones and that Bison Futé foresees very disrupted traffic on the roads during the next three days. Orange, red and black are on the program and you will have to be very careful on the highways and the various traffic routes. For this Friday, red is on the menu in the outgoing direction, but orange will also be there in the return direction for this crossover. Traffic will be particularly “very dense” in Île-de-France, towards the toll gates of the A10 and A6 motorways. The A7, A31 and A63 motorways will also be “very busy”. Access to Italy via the Mont-Blanc tunnel will also be “very difficult between the beginning and the end of the afternoon. This same axis will be very busy in the direction of returns (Italy-France) at the end of afternoon. It is therefore advisable to leave or cross Île-de-France and major cities before 12 p.m. You should also avoid the A31 motorway between Nancy and Luxembourg from 12 to 19 p.m., the A63 motorway between Bordeaux and Bayonne from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the A10 motorway between Orléans and Tours between 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. and the A7 motorway between Lyon and Orange from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Bison Futé foresees the worst weekend of the summer on the roads and assumes it: Saturday will be, according to the agency, “the most difficult day of the summer on all of the country’s main connecting roads”.
From Friday, traffic will be very difficult in the direction of departures. Bison Futé classified this day in red throughout the country. Several areas will be particularly busy:
In the direction of returns, the day is classified as orange with heavy traffic, particularly on all axes along the Mediterranean.
Saturday, August 5, 2023 promises to be the busiest day of the summer for Bison Futé. From the very beginning of the morning, Bison Futé expects extremely heavy traffic on the A7, A9 and A10 motorways but also on the A61, A71 and A75. The A43 motorway will also be particularly busy in the Lyon-Chambéry direction, especially between late morning and early afternoon. Same thing on the N205 towards the Mont-Blanc tunnel and on the A75 between Montpellier and Clermont-Ferrand.
There will be better this Sunday with orange in the direction of the departures. Among the big difficulties of the day expected, the A10 between Orléans and Tours in the morning then at Bordeaux level especially at the approach of the evening and the A7 on the segment between Lyon and Orange are reported. It is also advisable to leave or cross Ile de France and the major cities of the country before 8 a.m., to avoid the A71 at Clermont-Ferrand between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. and the A61 between Toulouse and Narbonne from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. .
What is the Bison Futé forecast for the weekend of August 12-13, 2023?
