Exodus, return of the races… Record traffic jams Thursday evening in Lyon

A few hours before the reconfinement, a traffic jam record was recorded in Lyon.

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The metropolis of Lyon had never known this.

Thursday evening, a few hours from the new confinement, several hundred kilometers of cumulative traffic jams were recorded throughout the city.

Unheard of, according to organizations responsible for monitoring the state of traffic in real time.

Some motorists, stranded on the banks of the Rhône in Lyon, had to wait nearly an hour and a half to cover barely two kilometers.

And others took more than 4 hours to connect Grenoble, located about a hundred kilometers from Lyon.

Lots of traffic also tonight on #lyon #bouchons # confinementSaison2 photo taken at the moment pic.twitter.com/Zmx4gE1HBv

- Storm chaser Lyonnais Yannick Devesvre (@chasseur_dorage) October 29, 2020

According to TomTom Traffic, the congestion rate, that is, the extra travel time measured by each driver, was 84% ​​at 4 pm and then 140% at 6.30 pm Southbound traffic was completely blocked.

The docks, the ring road and the highways were the main black spots.

Just like the exit of shopping malls.

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