Drivers on the vacation route will have to be patient this Saturday.
Bison Smart has forecast particularly heavy traffic for this second weekend of the holidays.
All of France is classified red ("very difficult traffic") in the direction of departures and orange ("difficult traffic") in the direction of returns.
In its forecasts, the organization assured from Friday that "traffic will be (it) dense on most major routes to the south and coastal regions".
At 1 p.m., Bison Smart already counted nearly 900 kilometers of traffic jams over the whole of France.
"Slowdowns and traffic jams are expected, in particular, in the Massif Central on the A20 and A71 motorways, in the Rhône valley on the A7 motorway, then on the A8 and A9 motorways along the Mediterranean", specifies Bison smart in his newsletter.
Traffic will also be very heavy when leaving Île-de-France towards the A10 motorway in the direction of Orleans, Tours, then Bordeaux.
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Among the most popular axes, major traffic jams (nearly 180 km) are still to be expected on the A7 near Orange towards Marseille.
More than 130 km of slowdowns are still planned on the A10, the motorway linking Paris to Bordeaux.
Cumulatively, traffic jams at noon reach over 1,000 km on all roads in France.
Less dense traffic on Sunday
For these routes, it is therefore advisable to avoid the A10 between Orléans and Bordeaux until 1 p.m., the A20 between Limoges and Brive-la-Gaillarde from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the A6 between Mâcon and Lyon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the A7 between Lyon and Orange from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or the A43 between Lyon and Chambéry from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Traffic should be less difficult on Sunday, most of the departures being classified as green (except in the south-eastern quarter and the Mediterranean area classified as orange), as are the returns from vacation. Some difficulties are however expected in the Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes region in the direction of departures, on the A7. Likewise, traffic will also be disrupted by the 21ᵉ and final stage of the Tour de France, which will link the city of Chatou (Yvelines) to the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Finally, some slowdowns are still expected around the route of the course.