“The situation is in line with forecasts,” said Bison Fûté in a press release, which noted a peak of traffic jams of 1,082.5 km at 12:15 p.m. The difficulties were to remain very high until 8:00 p.m.
Qualified as “exceptional” by the interministerial body without however breaking the record of 1,086.5 km a year ago, the level of congestion was concentrated in particular in the west of the country on the A10 and in Auvergne-Rhône- Alps on the A7. The highways recorded 157.9 km and 181.3 km of disruption respectively at the height of the morning.
Thus, at the end of the morning, from Saint-Arnoult-en Yvelines to Poitiers, on the A10, it was necessary to count more than one hour more of the journey on the usual 02:30 and 02:45 additional hours against 02:00 usually to reach Bordeaux from the capital. poitevine, according to Vinci which manages the highway.
On the A63, 2:45 a.m. instead of 1:55 a.m. were needed towards the Spanish border from Bordeaux, with an almost equivalent time in the return direction for which the day was classified red in the territory.
At the same time, in Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne, Vinci also indicated that on the Autoroute du Soleil, road users had to drive 04:15 instead of 01:35 normally to reach Orange from the south of Lyon. In the opposite direction, they had to add 01:20.
On the Mediterranean arc, the difficulties were mainly concentrated on the A9 with a travel time of 02:55 instead of 01:40 to get to Narbonne.
Last Saturday, a peak of more than 860 km of cumulative traffic jams was recorded.
Traffic will be more fluid on Sunday, with a day classified as green at the national level but orange in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and in the Mediterranean arc.
