Plugs on the A9 at Perpignan on August 1 2015 – RAYMOND ROIG / AFP

significant plugs slowed holidaymakers still taking the road this Saturday , classified by day red traffic monitoring in line with returns and orange in the departures across the country.

at midday, at the height of traffic congestion appeared to have reached their peak 750 km, the equivalent of a Paris-Montpellier route completely clogged, and began to decline. Last year at this time, the caps totaled up to 630 km, according to Traffic monitoring. The main difficulties were concentrated in the direction of returns on the motorways of the Mediterranean Arc: on the A9 between Perpignan and Montpellier, on the A8 between Nice and Aix-en-Provence and finally on the A7 in the Valley . Rhône, where traffic was already densely Friday

congestion were also reported by traffic monitoring on the A61 and the A64 to Narbonne, Toulouse and Biarritz between Toulouse and Narbonne; on the A20