France back on the highway en masse | Abroad

Holidaymakers are urged to postpone their departure until Sunday. They are strongly advised not to drive during the night from Friday to Saturday and not on Saturday.

As usual, most problems in the southeast are expected on the main routes between the Riviera or the Spanish border and the north of the country. Both directions involve the Paris – Lyon (A6) motorway and the motorways between Lyon and the Mediterranean, especially the A9 to Catalonia. At the Mont Blanc tunnel, it is also queuing from Italy to France.

Traffic jams on the A10

But the ‘road watchdog’ Bison Futé warns that homecomers will already be on the road on Friday afternoon and it threatens to get stuck between Toulouse and Bordeaux, in the southwest, too. The infamous A10 in the west and southwest will also have to deal with traffic jams at the weekend.

The German ANWB, the ADAC, also expects a lot of holiday traffic, just like its French colleagues. Holidays start in some German federal states and in others they end on Monday. Holidays start in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate, among others. Still, the ADAC estimates that there is less holiday traffic than usual, because many people cancel their trip due to the corona restrictions. There is a warning about road closures as a result of the recent floods. These include the closure for repairs on parts of the A61 west of Cologne and Bonn.

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