Traffic build-up for end of winter holidays in France.

Posted on March 9, 2019 by bill

Retours de vacances : la journée classée rouge dans une partie de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Red alert for traffic in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes this weekend.

Ce week-end est le dernier des vacances scolaires d’hiver, où une grande partie des déplacements se concentrent à proximité des stations de ski. The end of the winter school holidays brings traffic jams leaving the ski-stations.

Des vacanciers pris par les bouchons sur l\'autoroute A43, entre Chambery et Albertville (Savoie), lors d\'un précédent week-end de vacances d\'hiver, le 24 février 2018.
Des vacanciers pris par les bouchons sur l’autoroute A43, entre Chambery et Albertville (Savoie), lors d’un précédent week-end de vacances d’hiver, le 24 février 2018. (JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT / AFP)

Cette fois, les vacances sont vraiment finies. Les élèves de la zone C, la dernière encore en congés, reprennent les cours lundi 11 mars. Et qui dit retours de vacances dit aussi bouchons : Bison Futé a classé la journée de samedi 9 mars rouge dans le sens des retours dans sept départements de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Dans le sens des départs, la journée est classée jaune dans ces mêmes départements. Dimanche, toute la France est classée verte par Bison Futé.

Les sept départements concernés sont la Haute-Savoie, la Savoie, l’Isère, l’Ain, le Rhône, la Drome et l’Ardèche, tous proches des stations de sports d’hiver d’où rentreront une bonne partie des vacanciers.

“Samedi 9 mars, sur les axes de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (A43, A40, N90) le trafic sera dense en direction et au retour des stations de ski. (…) Quittez les stations de sports d’hiver des Alpes avant 8 heures ou après 18 heures”, prévient Bison Futé.

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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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