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Traffic alert for holiday weekend
Red alert for Ile-de-France roads this afternoon as it is a three-day weekend for many
ROADS out of Paris will be very busy today as the getaway begins for the three-day Pentecost weekend.
With Monday a public holiday in France, many people are taking a long weekend break and traffic monitor Bison Futé has issued a red alert for roads out of the Ile-de-France today.
The rest of France is classified "orange" today and tomorrow - and again on Monday in the opposite direction.
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Bison Futé is advising drivers to avoid leaving big cities between 15.00 and 20.00 this afternoon (14.00-22.00 for Paris).
Tomorrow will also be busy between 9.00 and 14.00. Roads heading back to the Ile-de-France region will have heavy traffic on Monday afternoon.
It is estimated that only 20% of people will work Pentecost Monday - otherwise known as "solidarity day" as businesses donate a day's pay to charity.
Since 2008 companies have been able to decide whether to work, or take the day off and donate a day’s holiday pay, or to carry out their own journée de solidarité on another bank holiday.
