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Nicolas Zaugra
Posted on Apr 15, 2025 at 11:32 am
“Nightmare”, “puzzles”, “appalling” … The words did not miss the drivers this morning to qualify the state of traffic. Almost 80 kilometers of traffic jams and completely saturated Lyon entrances this Tuesday morning. After a Monday already very busy on the roads and highways at the entrances to the Lyon agglomeration, this Tuesday turned into a nightmare for motorists.
The peak of 80 kilometers of cumulative caps reaches
The weather report played in favor of the car with the morning rainscongestion the main axes.
This morning at peak time around 8 a.m., the amount of cumulative caps reached the 80 kilometers according to the CORALY service (Coordination and regulation of traffic in the Lyon agglomeration) qualifying the “difficult” traffic conditions with black color.
More than twice as much time as normal
The journey time has more than doubled compared to normal, according to Coraly, on the main axes of access to Lyon this Tuesday morning. From Limonest, to the Fourvière tunnel, via the M6 it was necessary to half an hour Instead of 7 minutes.
On the South A46, it took 45 minutes to make Communay towards Saint-Priest until the A43. “Important traffic jams approaching Lyon on the A43 and Switzerland from Annecy on the A41 North. Numerous disturbances also in Grenoble and Chambéry, ”said Autoroute Info this morning.
South of the metropolis, from Saint-Genis Laval to the tunnel under Fourvière, it was necessary at peak time of 8 hours almost 29 minutes in place of the 7 min in normal times.
A congestion rate that explodes more than 100%
According to the Tom-Tom index, the congestion rate this morning was 123% at 9 am compared to the ideal course of course.
The tool of the famous GPS also indicates that traffic is always very complicated in the western direction, tunnel under Fourvière towards the M7, the quays of the Rhône to enter Lyon from the M7, the quays of Saône on the old-lyon side. The bypass axes such as the device where the A42 are now green. The South A46 in the Corbas towards Saint-Priest direction is still saturated this morning after 11 am.
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