2024-04-07 20:17:28
Delivering to competition sites, transporting hotel linen or removing waste: heavy goods vehicles will soon be able to circulate more freely on weekends in France due to the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, according to a decree published Sunday in the Official Journal.
As a general rule, vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes are not allowed to travel from 10 p.m. on Saturdays and the eve of public holidays, and until 10 p.m. on Sundays and public holidays.
A decree lifts this ban, from May 1 to October 31, 2024, for heavy goods vehicles supplying sites “duly identified” by the organizing committee for the 2024 Games. Other types of heavy goods vehicles will also be able to drive on weekends in Île-de-France and in neighboring departments, from July 19 to September 16, 2024.
Food, laundry, waste…
This concerns “vehicles exclusively transporting foodstuffs and products intended for human and animal food, hygiene and human or animal health”, those “ensuring the supply of clean linen and the evacuation of dirty linen from hotel structures” and “vehicles providing transport for waste disposal”. Carriers will have to present proof in the event of an inspection.
The Olympic Games take place from July 26 to August 11 and the Paralympic Games from August 28 to September 8.
Apart from the reductions motivated by the Olympics, the State will limit the presence of large vehicles on the roads during the traffic peaks of the solar holidays. A decree thus prohibits the circulation of heavy goods vehicles from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “on Saturdays July 6, July 20, July 27, August 3, August 10, August 17 and August 24, 2024 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on all or part of the National territory “.
Another text prohibits coaches carrying children from traveling long distances “on dates when forecast road traffic is the highest” (Saturdays July 27 and August 3). Not concerned are “vehicles operating public transport of children to or from an event officially linked to the 2024 Olympic Games”.
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