While it was due to end on December 31, 2024, the experiment with inter-line traffic (CIF) for motorcycles and scooters was extended for an additional six months by the Minister of the Interior.
A practice that has become part of French habits and which was extended at the last minute. While for three years motorcyclists have been able to slip between cars in the event of a traffic jam, this practice was to end on December 31. It was ultimately extended for another six months. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, issued an extension order published on the last day of the year in the Official Journal.
“There is no reason to oppose the extension of the inter-line traffic experiment,” states the text, which sets July 31, 2025 as the new end date.
This umpteenth postponement should allow Cerema (Center for studies and expertise on risks, environment, mobility and planning) to obtain additional data to determine the future of this practice.
21 departments concerned
This inter-lane circulation, which should make traffic flow more fluid, “is authorized on motorways and two-lane roads separated by a central reservation and with at least two lanes each, where the maximum authorized speed is greater than or equal to at 70 km/h”, explains the decree of July 28, 2021.
After first tests from 2016 – for a more than mixed result – the experiment was extended to 21 departments in 2021, where it therefore remains in progress in: Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne, Gironde , Hérault, Isère, Loire-Atlantique, the North, the Rhône (including the Lyon metropolis), the Var, the Alpes-Maritimes, the Drôme, Vaucluse, Pyrénées-Orientales as well as the 8 departments of the Île-de-France region (Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne , Val-d’Oise, Yvelines).
