Are you getting ready to go to work at your office on Tuesday? Bad choice. If you opt for the car, you will undoubtedly find yourself stuck in traffic jams on particularly crowded Parisian roads. And if you prefer public transport, you have a good chance of traveling on crowded trains and subways. The Parisien data cell took a close look at data from Sytadin, the site dedicated to traffic in Greater Paris and Ile-de-France Mobilités, the transport regulatory authority to find out on which day, since the May 25, it was better to choose to work from home (for those who can).
Unsurprisingly, Tuesday morning remains, especially on the roads, the busiest day.
As before the crisis.
"It's the start of the week, we are still cool enough to take transport or endure traffic jams, there are no weekend prospects yet", analyzes Jean, an employee who has opted for this day -the.
On average, there are 319 kilometers of traffic jams during the morning rush hour and 253 kilometers in the evening.
It is therefore the most difficult day of the week.
This was already the case in 2019, with even more traffic jams in the evening.
Then comes Thursday, again unsurprisingly.
The data shows an average of 264 kilometers of traffic jams in the morning and 242 kilometers in the evening on the Paris region axes.
A little less than Tuesday but more than the other days.
Traffic increases on Wednesday morning and Friday evening
Conversely - and as expected - it is therefore better to travel on Monday.
It is still necessary to compose that day with the 264 kilometers of traffic jams in the morning on average and 227, in the evening.
Wednesday can also be a solution, even if the morning peak (271 kilometers of traffic jams) is particularly high with a significant increase (+ 44.9%) compared to 2019!
More than Thursday morning.
In the evening, however, it is a little less than the other days with 230 kilometers "only".
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Finally, Friday is the day of the splits.
It is the least congested morning.
We would therefore be tempted to hit the road.
Except that, since the lifting of restrictions, Ile-de-France residents clearly seem to have desires elsewhere.
Consequence: on Friday evening, we recorded 329 kilometers of traffic jams!
On average, this is about 40 kilometers more than before the health crisis.
And this Friday, the peak even reached 450 kilometers.
Since the lifting of the restrictions, Friday evenings have seen very significant peaks of traffic jams, as here, on June 18 with 450 kms at 6 p.m.
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The direction of the roads of Ile-de-France (Dirif) however recalls that “it is not because there are more cars circulating that there is more congestion (in length of traffic jams or duration / hardness of the plug) ”.
And even if there is an increase of 1 to 3% in congestion, "our network can charge and support, as was the case with the first deconfinement, assures Dirif, the difference, this time, is the state. operation of the device.
At the time, it was very fluid thanks to teleworking, the development of soft modes of transport such as cycling, school closings… But today it is much less ”.
Busy Tuesday also in transport
In the subways or the RER, the difference in attendance depending on the day is, on the other hand, much less clear. Ile-de-France Mobilités recognizes that it is still too early to carry out this type of analysis and that it will be necessary to wait for attendance to stabilize. Because at this stage: "We note an increase of 1% to 2% each day, reaching 66% attendance on Wednesday June 9". Much more than the last few months. In general, however, IDFM notes that "travel habits are similar to those before the crisis": Tuesday and Thursday remain the busiest days. Nothing therefore seems frozen. Ile-de-France residents are still looking for new habits. Teleworking - and why not the time difference - could further change this data,depending on what employers will allow and what employees will choose. Unless a new wave of Covid decides it for them after the summer.