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Topic: 2.5 hours delay French Tolls

IamRhino

25/8/2013 at 7:22pm
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Returned from our first French camping Trip yesterday ......... what should have been a pleasant gentle drive back became a frustrating race to meet our booked tunnel crossing which we missed by over an hour ..... we were held up for 45 mins to get through the tolls at the bridge and 1 hour 40 mins 15 km+ tail back for the tolls just on the a29 to Rouen ..... Does anyone know a reason for the delays or did I pick a bad time & day to travel (The queues for the tunnel were the worst Ive seen ....

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25/8/2013 at 7:33pm
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French holiday season?

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25/8/2013 at 7:45pm
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Sounds as if you were a bit unlucky, though Saturday's in August tend to be busier with people returning from holiday (the previous two Saturday's were the peak ones though).

Queues for the tunnel at Calais are quite usual, normally to get through the UK passport control. When we came back last week they only had two lanes open with significant queues for both.

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we were travelling from Rouen upto Holland that day, there was an accident on A29, but think the mian problem was it was a French bank holiday weekend so traffic heavy than usual.

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25/8/2013 at 11:41pm
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We left Portiragnes at 0700 and were in Verseilles by 430
The weekend before took as 5 hours to do 90 miles!

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Hi, we have just got back from a 2400 mile round trip round France and were very lucky with the traffic. We made our ferry crossing by the skin of our teeth, the Pont Mathilde in Rouen is closed and this has caused huge tailbacks and the UK passport control in Calais were being very slow in processing passports.
This weekend is the start of the French return home so the roads are bad.

Val A

26/8/2013 at 7:46pm
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I did try to say to everyone don't use the diversion but to use the D6015. We got through Rouen on Friday at 4.00 pm with absolutely no problems at all and didn't have to pay a penny in tolls. Our friend, on the other hand, decided to use the A28/29 and like the OP got stuck for two hours waiting to pay for a 'quicker' stretch of road!

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We went through Rouen on way down and way up using the 6014 via the Pont du L'Arche without any hold ups at all. On the way up it was this Saturday at about 11.00am and I thought we might have some traffic delay but none at all.
Mind, Val, maybe we should stop telling folk about that route or it will get busy!

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29/8/2013 at 12:11am
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Yeah, can only assume it was the traffic levels on that day. We went down via the A29 and Pont De Brotonne on a Monday 19/8 and traffic on the A29 was pretty light.

Most annoying bit was being stuck behind 2 combine harvesters for miles :-)

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29/8/2013 at 7:57am
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We also were travelling back on Monday the 19/08, via Pont du Brotonne and we noticed the very high number of tractors on the road. Did not really delay us at all as were ever they could they would pull over and let the traffic past.

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29/8/2013 at 9:31am
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It's harvest time - we have the same around where we live in august. Tractors would have been ok, it's easy enough for them to pull over, or to over take.

But this was two combines (with the big front cylindrical bit on a trailer behind), with a warning van in front, and then with a UK car/caravan held up behind them. Which meant overtaking in a RHD car was very difficult. And they had to wait for a long time until they had a space to pull into.

There were some crazy overtaking moves from the French vehicles behind tho (alos like being at home...) :-)

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We came that way on Saturday and didn't notice anything unusual. We went through Rouen (via D6015) at about lunchtime with no delays at all and it was clear all the way up to Calais.

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