Did Parisians go to replenish their stocks of pulp and toilet paper in supermarkets this afternoon?
Did they go green after the announcements, especially that of the reconfinement, by Emmanuel Macron the day before?
Or do they come home earlier than expected from their vacation?
It is too early to know, but we already know that, since the measures of Sytadin and the Direction des routes d'Ile-de-France (Dirif) exist, we had never seen this in the middle of the afternoon.
Sytadin website
Even for the last Thursday of the All Saints holidays, it is an absolutely new level: in 2017, at the height of traffic jams, the Dirif noted a total of 326 km, but it was at 6:18 p.m., and not in the middle of the day. 'afternoon.
Shattered records
In 2018, at most, there were barely 83 km of traffic jams at noon.
Last year, in 2019, a peak of 525 km was reached, but at 6:06 p.m.
Even beyond the holiday period, previous records for such an hour on weekdays are far behind.
On Friday, December 22, 2017, a day of departure for Christmas holidays, at 3:48 p.m., there were only 376 km of traffic jams.
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