If the device was saturated in July, it may be because of the World Cup



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 Stoppers and pollution on the Toulouse ring road. Illustration

Stoppers and pollution on the Toulouse ring road. Drawing. – F. Lancelot / Sipa

To believe that Toulouse do not take holidays. Or rather, they have shifted their departures. The traffic in July "was close to that of June", indicates in The Dispatch of the Midi Mathieu Athanas, head of the center of management traffic to the
Dirso, which manages the West Ring Road
Toulouse

"World Cup Effect"

How to explain this phenomenon, which had already occurred last summer? For Mathieu Athanas, it's "due to the newcomers to Toulouse. Transit users also mention the closure of subway line A. But the most original explanation is that of the Toulouse economist Marc Ivaldi, professor at the
Toulouse School of Economics

Still in The Dispatch of the Midi he evokes a "World Cup effect": "The situation makes that people have shifted their holidays (…) There must have been a World Cup effect. »

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Keywords:

  • public transport
  • World Cup 2018
  • Toulouse
  • Haute-Garonne
  • Occitanie
  • traffic jams