Parents who complain, children who shout and overdose of Nostalgia this Sunday in the cars of the French stuck in traffic jams.

The day was classified black at the national level on the occasion of the returns of the Pont de l'Ascension.

"We are seeing a different situation from the returns from the ascent of previous years, with two peaks of traffic jams of fairly equivalent levels: one at 12.35 p.m. with 877 km of traffic jams, the other at 5.50 p.m. with 934 km of traffic jams", said indicated Bison Fûté in its last press release.

"This situation may assume that many users have anticipated their returns, which has triggered a traffic peak greater than expected at midday," he explained.

The main difficulties were mainly concentrated in the South, particularly on the A7 where there were still more than 90 km of accordion traffic at the end of the day.

4 hours instead of 1h40 on the Autoroute du Soleil

At the height of the disturbances, the travel time between Orange and the south of Lyon was 4 hours instead of 1 hour 40 minutes on the Autoroute du Soleil, according to its operator Vinci Autoroutes.

At the same time On the A8, it took no less than 3h10 instead of 2h20 to reach Orange from Nice and 2h30 instead of 1h40 on the A9 from Narbonne.

Other slowdowns had also been recorded by Vinci in the west of the country going up to the capital.

Thus on the A63, the journey time was at midday 02:50 instead of 02:00 from the Spanish border to Bordeaux, while motorists had to be more patient going up the A10 with 03:30 instead of 02:10 between the Gironde capital and Poitiers and 03h50 instead of 02h30 between Poitiers and Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, just before Paris.

At the start of the evening, other traffic difficulties were notable on the A10, A11 (West) and A61 motorways “with 60-65 km of traffic jams”, as well as the A9 and the A89 “with 45-50 km of traffic jams. “, according to Bison Fûté.

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