Between the school holidays and the spring weather, next weekend promises to be particularly busy on the roads. Several highways will be affected.
There will be people on the roads the weekend of April 13 and 14. The children of the academies of Paris, Créteil, Montpellier, Toulouse and Versailles, on Easter vacation since the evening of April 5, will be joined at the end of the week by those of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges , Lyon and Poitiers. The opportunity for many families to go outdoors for a few days, to the sea or the countryside, and take a short break before the final stretch towards the summer holidays.
In addition to bringing together zones A and C, this weekend promises to be sunny across the whole of France, particularly during the day on Saturday. Sunshine but also very mild temperatures, well above 20 degrees almost everywhere. These spring forecasts could well push a lot of people out and about. All the ingredients are there to ensure that traffic conditions will be particularly difficult during this second weekend of the month.
Bison Futé predicts orange on Saturday in Ile de France and several major routes will be affected by this increase in traffic. These are the A6 motorways, the one linking Paris and Lyon, the A10, between the capital and Bordeaux, and the A13, commonly known as the Normandy motorway, linking Paris and Caen. The first difficulties will appear on Friday April 12 when departing from Île-de-France at the end of the morning “towards the toll gates of the A10 and A6 motorways, as well as on the axes converging towards these motorways”, specifies Bison Futé in a press release. Traffic will intensify in the afternoon, particularly with the combination of vacation departures and work-home journeys around Paris.
If motorists are recommended to leave or pass through the Paris region before noon on Friday, it will be necessary to anticipate much more on Saturday April 13. The first traffic peaks should appear early in the morning (before 8 a.m.), still on these three major highways, which are very popular with Ile-de-France residents. Travel times could lengthen significantly for those who take their car this weekend. As a first taste of the next bridges for the month of May already classified red, or even black for the day of Sunday May 12.