This Friday, April 19 marks the start of the school holidays for students in zone B (academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rouen, and Strasbourg). Those in zone C are experiencing their last days of vacation before the big summer break.
In the direction of departures, the National Road Information Center advises avoiding the A7 motorway between Lyon and Orange from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and to avoid it between 3 p.M. and 6 p.m. in the direction of returns. Traffic is also expected to be difficult in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region for Saturday. The situation will be more complicated this Friday in the south and south-east of the country, more precisely from the Hautes-Alpes to the Pyrénées-Orientales, Bison futé has classified this area in orange.