Are you planning to drive this weekend? The crossover of holidaymakers from the three school holiday zones may test your patience. The day of this Saturday February 19 is indeed classified red in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in both directions, according to the traffic forecasts of Bison Futé published on Wednesday. The day is classified green at the national level.
In the direction of departures, the day of Friday is classified green at the national level and orange in Ile-de-France. In the direction of returns, traffic is green throughout the territory. Sunday is classified as green in both directions nationally.
For Friday, Bison Futé advises leaving or crossing Ile-de-France before 2 p.m. Saturday, for holidaymakers on departure, it is better to avoid the A6 between Beaune and Lyon from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., the A43 between Lyon and Chambéry from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the A40 between Mâcon and Chamonix from 10 a.m. at 2 p.m. and the A13 between Paris and Rouen from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. In the direction of returns, the A6 between Beaune and Paris should be avoided from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., as well as the A40 between Chamonix and Mâcon from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the A43 between Chambéry and Lyon from 9 a.m. 15 hours.
This weekend marks the start of the holidays in zone C (academies of Paris-Créteil, Versailles, Montpellier, Toulouse), the end of the holidays in zone B (academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy -Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg). The inhabitants of zone A (academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers) are in the middle of their winter holidays.