It only took a few hundred meters, an insignificant portion of asphalt usually covered in twenty seconds.
It only took a single thing for an entire sector to suffocate.
Since Monday, the Mantaise region has suffered the consequences of the blocking of the A13 motorway near Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines), by angry farmers.
The sector is suffocated during peak hours and the paralysis is felt even in the isolated countryside, where some of the 60,000 daily users of the very strategic Buchelay toll pass.
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About twenty kilometers from this structure, the effects are initially moderate.
We come across more trucks on rural roads, heavy goods vehicles registered abroad driving at a walking pace, looking for the route that will allow them to regain control of the province.
Others speed off to make up for the time lost in bypasses.
And that's about it.
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