The Paris police headquarters announces the total closure of the RN 118 to heavy goods vehicles this Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22.
National road 118 in Ile-de-France is closed to traffic for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes from this Thursday, November 21 evening and this Friday, November 22 until midday due to snowfall , announced the police headquarters in a press release.
This Thursday evening, significant traffic difficulties were still felt on this road axis due to heavy snowfall and icy conditions which were beginning to form, noted a BFMTV journalist on site.
The government road traffic tool Sytadin specifies that “vehicles transporting dangerous materials” are also affected by this ban.
This road link connects Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine) to Ulis (Essonne) in the southwest of Paris. For all vehicles, the maximum speed is reduced to 20km/h on “the structuring axes of Île-de-France”, continues the prefecture.
A “still complicated” situation
“The situation for motorists in Yvelines still remains complicated even if the positive news is that snowfall is slowing down,” Frédéric Rose, prefect of Yvelines, the department through which the N118 passes, told BFMTV.
The latter notes that “nearly 15 centimeters of snow fell on Yvelines. In terms of traffic, “no axis is currently blocked”, assures the prefect, particularly at the level of the municipal and secondary network.
Faced with the threat of black ice which looms particularly during the evening of Thursday and the morning of Friday November 22, employees of the road services will continue to “salt the roads”, continues Frédéric Rose.
The six departments of Île-de-France were placed on orange “snow-ice” vigilance this Thursday, November 21, vigilance also continues this Friday, November 22.
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