“Heavy goods vehicles are clearly responsible for this situation,” explains the Paris Rhin-Rhône motorway operator, which includes the A36, where several hundred vehicles are still blocked this Friday morning, and have been since Thursday evening.
According to the operator, the first traffic jams formed from 9 p.m. and the restrictions for trucks, decreed by the prefectures until 10 a.m. Friday, were later. “These measures should have been taken much earlier,” deplores the APRR.
Especially since some trucks still plunged into traffic and, poorly equipped, got in the way and got stuck, obstructing traffic.
An embolism that the intervention of the gendarmes to block and store the heavy goods vehicles, from 11 p.m., could not resolve.
As for the messages broadcast by Autoroute Info indicating that the castaways would receive blankets and hot drinks, the APRR assures that “the Red Cross, which is called upon in these cases, was activated at 9:55 p.m. in the Villars sector . »
The APRR announced a press release from 11 a.m. this Friday morning to provide an update on the situation.
