“We know that where we are going, we have sun so it’s okay,” adds Sonia Zebboudj with the same stoicism, from Chateauroux and on the way to Italy where she will celebrate her marriage. “We left at 1 am. White night but everything is fine,” says the future bride, who travels with children and friends.
For this first weekend in August, the main black dots are as usual on the A7, towards the Mediterranean, with 108 km of traffic jams. Traffic was even more slowed down by the occurrence of two accidents. 102 km of traffic jams were noted on the A9, also towards the Mediterranean, and 125 km on the A10, leading to the Atlantic coast.
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The A71, which crosses the Massif Central, is also strongly impacted, with 64 km of traffic jams, after an accident early in the morning which blocked traffic.
In Île-de-France, traffic is also disrupted on the A10 and A6 motorways as well as on the axes which converge there, such as the A86 and the A6B.
In the middle of the day, the traffic time on the A7 between the south of Lyon and Orange (Vaucluse) was 2:35 instead of 1:35 am in normal times, and 3:25 instead of 1:40 enters on the A9 between Orange and Narbonne, according to the X account of Vinci Autoroutes, which manages these axes.
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The difficulties of this crossover, which must spread until Monday, had already started on Friday, classified day for departures, from Hauts-de-France to Brittany, passing through Normandy, Ile-de-France and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Traffic was dense on Friday from the start of the morning until the middle of the evening.
Sunday, the day is classified yellow in the direction of departures.