Good Morning, We will be staying in the region just south and west of Troyes this July. We will rent a car in Paris at Charles de Gaulle. Has anyone driven from Troyes, or near there, to Avignon? We plan to make that drive on July 20th and may possibly stop in Lyon on the way south. How are the roads and traffic?
Thank you very much. Merci.
Sean
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L'Occitanie, France
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Easy drive. You have the choice of a couple of autoroutes and it's a Monday, so no weekend vacation traffic jams.
One route has 30 kilometers of departmental road through several villages before you get on the A6, the other is the A39 from Troyes to the A6. You can take the A31 to the A39 into Lyon and leave via the A6. The A6 through Lyon is well-known for jams, stuck in tunnels. Just a fact of life unless they've made improvements in recent years.
Balso or JoLui, who know the roads very well, should be able to tell you if approaching via A39 is any better. We hit a jam driving out of Lyon on the A39, but it could have been a fluke.