School holidays 2020: heavy traffic throughout the country for this first weekend

Traffic should be loaded at the start of the summer holidays, with disruptions in the direction of departures throughout the territory, announced on July 1 Bison Futé and the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition.

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Traffic is classified red this Friday, July 3 in the Paris region in the direction of departures, the National Road Information Center advises to leave or cross the Ile-de-France after 8pm. In the rest of the country, traffic is classified orange on Friday and Saturday, also for departures.

Traffic is classified red this Friday in the Paris region in the direction of departure. smart one

Sunday, July 5, Ile-de-France traffic is classified green at the national level and orange in Normandy and in the Southwest, in the direction of departures. Throughout the rest of the country and throughout the weekend, traffic will be green in the direction of returns.

This time of year translates into many long-distance trips on the major axes of the country, with a particularly dense traffic on the main routes towards the south and coastal regions, specifies Bison Futé.