Traffic was, as expected, “heavy” this Saturday late morning in France, with more than 520 kilometers of traffic jams, especially in the Rhône Valley. The traffic was to intensify on this day of departures on summer vacation classified red at the national level and black in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
As expected, slowdowns started early in the morning focused on the A7 towards the south where there were around 11:00 a.m. nearly 100 kilometers of disturbances leaving Lyon, according to Bison Fûté. The travel time on the Autoroute du Soleil between the south of Lyon and Orange was 03:20 instead of 01:35, as indicated by its operator Vinci Autoroutes on Twitter, an axis which will be heavily congested until 7:00 p.m.
At the same time, traffic was “dense and disturbed” on the A10 from Saint-Arnoult (Yvelines) towards Bordeaux where it took 01h45 more to reach the Gironde capital, according to the same source. More than 67 kilometers of traffic jams were then recorded on this axis, specifies Bison Fûté, who had strongly recommended on Friday to avoid the Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines toll between 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and the Orléans-Tours axis between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. .
in parallel on the A9, patience was required on the Orange-Narbonne axis with a journey time of more than 4 hours instead of 1 hour 40 minutes. From the Aude capital, holidaymakers going to the Spanish border had to take 1:15 a.m. instead of the usual 45 minutes, Vinci notes again.
Friday, a day already classified as red in Ile-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, a peak of 785 kilometers of traffic jams was recorded at the end of the afternoon.