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3w ago

Nationwide Black Alert as French Roads Grind to Over 500 km of Jams

Travel times on key routes have more than doubled, prompting red to orange warnings for return traffic.

Le 30 juin 1978, sur l’autoroute de l’Ouest. Un panneau annonce la diffusion de cartes Bison futé.
Plus de 500 km de bouchons samedi en milieu de matinée, selon Bison Futé, en cette journée classée noire
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Overview

  • Bison Futé classified departures today at black across France and flagged return journeys as red around the Mediterranean and orange elsewhere.
  • By mid-morning, official counts recorded over 500 km of congestion, with the A7, A10 and A9 logging the longest queues.
  • The A7 trip from Lyon to Orange surged to 4 h 20 min from a normal 1 h 35 min, while travel on the A9 between Orange and Narbonne rose to 2 h 45 min versus 1 h 40 min.
  • Holiday corridors toward the Atlantic (A10, A63, A11), the Mediterranean (A7, A9, A61) and through the Massif Central (A75, A20) remain worst affected.
  • Motorists are encouraged to avoid peak windows between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and consider evening departures to bypass the heaviest jams.