Holidaymakers already in huge traffic jam on French roads just before Black Saturday | Abroad

Because many holidaymakers already took to the road on Friday, many people still ended up in traffic jams, resulting in hours of delay. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps region there was almost 300 kilometers of traffic jams and along the south coast there was a total of 125 kilometers of traffic jams. The French traffic information service advises motorists not to drive on Friday night or Saturday, but only on Sunday if possible, according to the ANWB.

Also on the A10 from Paris to Bordeaux there were long traffic jams with waiting times of about three hours. The same was true for the A75 between Paris and Clermont Ferrand, where motorists were also stuck in traffic for hours.

On Saturday, a lot of traffic is expected on the highways in France, not only by people driving to their holiday address, but also by returnees.

Germany

There was also a lot of holiday traffic in southern Germany on Friday and there were long traffic jams on the A8 from Karlsruhe to Munich. On the Swiss A2 from Chiasso in the direction of Lucerne, motorists had to wait a long time for the Gotthard tunnel.

Germany is also counting on huge traffic jams on Saturday, because the summer holidays have started on Friday in a number of federal states, while it has just ended in other regions.

The ADAC, the German sister organization of the ANWB, warns holidaymakers that the frequently used motorways A1 and A61 in Germany are partly impassable due to the damage caused by the high water this month. There are detour routes, but drivers everywhere must be aware of long traffic jams. Detours on local roads in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate do not make sense, according to the car club, because there are also many deposits there due to repair work.

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