First weekend of French holidays. Expect delays going south. Weather hot too!

J-1 avant la finale de l’Euro, Bison Futé voit rouge, les drapeaux en berne à Dallas… l’essentiel de l’info

Départs en vacances : le pic de 499 km d’embouteillages atteint à midi. 500kms tail backs. Last year the same w/e had 600 kms.

 

Bison Futé affirme sur son site internet que le pic de bouchons pour ce samedi de départs en vacances a été atteint à 11h57, soit 499 km d’embouteillages cumulés. Joint par France Info, le service d’information routière affirme que les embouteillages sont depuis en train de se résorber.

499kms traffic jams throughout France, heading south.

L’an dernier, lors du premier week-end des vacances d’été, le cumul maximal avait été de 608 km.

A 13h, ce samedi, les principales difficultés étaient toujours enregistrées dans la vallée du Rhône, sur l’A7, où il fallait 2h20 entre Lyon et Orange contre une heure habituellement. The A7 direction vallee de Rhone between Lyon and Orange has the usual traffic backlog.

Dans le sud de la France, les automobilistes circulaient toujours également au ralenti sur l’A9 entre Nîmes et Béziers, tout comme sur l’A61 avant Castelnaudary.                             The A9 between Nimes and Beziers and the A61 before Castelnaudary also slow.

Des embouteillages sont aussi en cours sur l’A10, vers l’Atlantique, au niveau de Bordeaux, Niort et de Tours.                                                                                                                                    The A10 on the Atlantic coast towards Bordeaux, slow at Tours and Niort.

La circulation devenait plus fluide sur l’A71 à hauteur de Clermont-Ferrand. Bison Futé prévoit un retour à la normale vers 18h.

Not too bad initially towards Clermont-Ferrand but expected to build as normal towards 18h.

Un premier pic de bouchon a été enregistré vendredi soir vers 18h, avec 568 km d’embouteillages, dont 320 km en Ile-de-France.                                                                     568 kms was the peak yesterday at 18h, including 320 kms out of Paris.

La journée de dimanche est classée “orange” dans le sens des départs en Ile-de-France, ce sera “vert” pour le reste du pays.                                                                                           Sunday is expected orange traffic alert for Paris and green for the rest of the country.

Ce week-end est le premier des vacances d’été. First w/e of summer holidays.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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