This Saturday, January 11, 2025, with the work at Odysseum and the influx of this first weekend of sales, the parking lots were saturated. Motorists remained stuck in the Ikea parking lot throughout the late afternoon.
“I had storage boxes to buy, it didn’t take me fifteen minutes to go back and forth to my car. But when I returned to the parking lot, at 5:30 p.m., I stayed stuck in my driveway until almost 8 p.m.
Dominique, 67, came from Gard to do a little shopping at Ikea Montpellier this Saturday afternoon. An experience that he will not relive soon since he stayed for two and a half hours without being able to leave the underground car park. Inconceivable according to him.
“I saw the moment when people were going to get in their faces”
“I even called the police to tell them that if there was a fire, it could be catastrophic, there would be deaths. They warned me that it was a private place and that it was necessary ask security to take care of it. I tried to get someone from Ikea, it was impossible to get out. There are roundabouts on each side, with the people. works, there is only one lane and There were crazy people. It wasn’t coming out. Everything was blocked. So, people were exasperated, I saw the moment when they were going to get in their faces, there were children too.”
Exited through the entrance
Work and lane reductions therefore but also the first weekend of sales. But the previous Saturday, excluding sales and Christmas shopping, in the afternoon, instructions were already given to customers to take their time in the store because the parking lot was already saturated. This Saturday, everything returned to normal shortly before 8 p.m. “Around 7:45 p.m., they had the reflex to let people out through the entrance, that resolved the situation. It’s a shame he didn’t think of it before.”
A problem already encountered
Around 8 p.m., everything was back to normal. And the parking lots throughout the neighborhood are emptying, because these are all the Odysseum parking areas which were very heavily used during this busy weekend for a traffic problem in the neighborhood which is not common but which is not an exception either.
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