Heavy snowfall overnight caused traffic difficulties this Friday morning in several departments, including four in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. In Haute-Savoie, traffic restrictions have been put in place for heavy goods vehicles in transit to Italy. Ditto in Isère where it was banned in the morning on several axes.
The prefecture of Savoie has also warned motorists accessing ski resorts, citing “particularly difficult traffic conditions”. It is thus expected “50 cm of snow at least” above 1,200 m of altitude. No bus was circulating in the Chambéry agglomeration.
A thousand homes without electricity in the Alps
In these three Alpine departments, a thousand homes were deprived of electricity on Friday morning, especially around the Val d’Arly and Saint-Jean-d’Arves, said the managing company Enedis. About 150 officers have been deployed but face access difficulties due to the large amount of snowfall.
In Ain, the main measure concerns the preventive ban on heavy goods vehicles taking the A40 to Haute-Savoie, which causes traffic jams at the Pont-d’Ain motorway junction.