Paris 2024: Trucks working for the Olympic Games will be able to drive on weekends and holidays

Delivery to competition venues, transport of hotel linen or waste collection: trucks will soon be able to move more freely on weekends in France due to the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, according to a decree published on Sunday in the Official Gazette. .

As a general rule, the movement of vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tons is prohibited from 22:00 on Saturdays and on the eve of public holidays and until 22:00 on Sundays and public holidays.

The decree lifts this ban from 1 May to 31 October 2024 for trucks supplying places “duly designated” by the organizing committee of the 2024 Games. Other types of trucks will also be able to drive on weekends in Ile-de-France and in neighboring departments with July 19 to September 16, 2024

Food, laundry, garbage…

We are talking about “vehicles transporting exclusively food products and products intended for human and animal nutrition, hygiene and human or animal health”, “ensuring the supply of clean linen and evacuation of dirty linen from hotel buildings” and “vehicles providing transport for waste disposal.” ” If audited, carriers will have to provide evidence.

The Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to August 11, the Paralympic Games from August 28 to September 8.

In addition to the Olympics-induced cuts, the state will limit the presence of large vehicles on the road during peak sun holiday traffic. Thus, the decree prohibits the movement of trucks from 7:00 to 19:00 “on Saturdays July 6, July 20, July 27, August 3, August 10, August 17 and August 24, 2024 from 7:00 to 19:00 during all or part of the National Territory.”

Other text prohibits buses carrying children from traveling long distances “on days when traffic is forecast to be the heaviest” (Saturday, July 27 and August 3). “Vehicles providing public transport for children to or from an event officially associated with the 2024 Olympic Games” are not affected.