...did/do you detour round Rouen?

...did/do you detour round Rouen?

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Orangecurry

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7,399 posts

205 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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Do you think it is worth a detour around, or did you get through easily enough?

Friday evening for me I'm afraid.

I was thinking of staying on the A29 (Le Havre road) until Yvetot, then diving down the D131/D490/D131/D913/D313, crossing the Seine at Pont de Brotonne (which looks nice and fast) and rejoining the A28 at Bourg-Achard....

Madness?

Edited by Orangecurry on Thursday 3rd July 20:54

550M

1,104 posts

214 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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I didn't, but wish I had....

Dave_newcastle

192 posts

217 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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I used the Yvetot route for the 24 last year. If I was in your shoes/car I would be doing the same tomorrow evening

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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We made our own detour

A29, A151 and A150.

No queues. A lot of traffic (we were towing a caravan) that had overtaken us much earlier then overtook again, so my route was defiantly quicker. Don't know which route they used of course!

Orangecurry

Original Poster:

7,399 posts

205 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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Thanks all - really helpful.

Now... what kind of shoes should I wear?



hehe

ellroy

7,005 posts

224 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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We've done Yvetot/Caudebec en Caux the last two years.

Dead easy, nice roads, and not through Rouen.

If you've got time Caudebec has some nice places to eat near the Seine as well.

Edited by ellroy on Friday 4th July 17:57

ellroy

7,005 posts

224 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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We've done Yvetot/Caudebec en Caux the last two years.

Dead easy, nice roads, and not through Rouen.

If you've got time Caudebec has some nice places to eat near the Seine as well.

Edited by ellroy on Friday 4th July 17:59

Rolls

1,502 posts

176 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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Yvetot here too for the last couple of years.. Breaks the journey up nicely too IMO!

WhyTwo

1,114 posts

191 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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We did the detour on the way down to the 24 this year, lovely fast route through the forest. Went through Rouen on the way home on the Sunday following the sat nav (doesn't follow the stupid detour signs), no problems at all and probably saved us at least an hour over the detour route and we got to play in the Rouen tunnel woohoo

Orangecurry

Original Poster:

7,399 posts

205 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Sounds like a good idea for the return journey on sunday.... but what's a 'sat nav'?

FartKong

897 posts

182 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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We went through the city centre on the way there this year and although busy, the traffic was flowing. On the way back we took the normal route and spent an hour sitting at the bridge not moving. Big mistake.

Craikeybaby

10,369 posts

224 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Orangecurry said:
Do you think it is worth a detour around, or did you get through easily enough?

Friday evening for me I'm afraid.

I was thinking of staying on the A29 (Le Havre road) until Yvetot, then diving down the D131/D490/D131/D913/D313, crossing the Seine at Pont de Brotonne (which looks nice and fast) and rejoining the A28 at Bourg-Achard....

Madness?

Edited by Orangecurry on Thursday 3rd July 20:54
That is the route we took down, which was the correct thing to do, on the way back, my Dad made the mistake of mixing sat nav directions and signpost directions, meaning we had to drive through the centre of Rouen twice.

Dave_newcastle

192 posts

217 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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WhyTwo said:
We did the detour on the way down to the 24 this year, lovely fast route through the forest. Went through Rouen on the way home on the Sunday following the sat nav (doesn't follow the stupid detour signs), no problems at all and probably saved us at least an hour over the detour route and we got to play in the Rouen tunnel woohoo
You saved you an hour by going through Rouen rather than Yvetot- really?

The difference between the Rouen route and the Yvetot route is only about 15 km according to google maps and like you say is a fast (ish) road. Google also predicts that Rouen route is ten minutes faster without traffic (or getting lost). Conditions at this very moment however predict a journey through Rouen that is 15 minutes slower. Traffic and temporarily on the wrong road have been regular occurrences for many with Rouen, so with the bridge still closed in Rouen and more fun to be found at Le Mans than the Rouen tunnel I stick with my recommendation of going through Yvetot.


Edited by Dave_newcastle on Friday 4th July 13:33

RobbyJ

1,566 posts

221 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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surveyor said:
We made our own detour

A29, A151 and A150.

No queues. A lot of traffic (we were towing a caravan) that had overtaken us much earlier then overtook again, so my route was defiantly quicker. Don't know which route they used of course!
We did this on Friday afternoon, no problem at all, sailed through smile

Orangecurry

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7,399 posts

205 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Thank you all. Yvetot here we come.

D -40 minutes and counting...............


kinabalu

239 posts

198 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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On the way back from the 24 last month we risked it.

The authorities seem to have cottoned on that roads grind to a halt with us all stumbling through & there was a well signed diversion from just outside town which re joined the Calais road a few miles further up. Look for the neon signs saying alt route to Calais.

Nicholas Blair

4,096 posts

283 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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surveyor said:
We made our own detour

A29, A151 and A150.

No queues. A lot of traffic (we were towing a caravan) that had overtaken us much earlier then overtook again, so my route was defiantly quicker. Don't know which route they used of course!
Yup, this is it :-)

OvalOwl

924 posts

130 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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On the way back from the 24H on Monday I had to stop off in the suburbs of Rouen to do this...



(the grave at the end of the row is one of the lads on the war memorial at work)

...and then headed over the river on the most convenient bridge and found it pretty easy to follow the North Bank of the Seine to pick up the N28 that leads to the autoroute to Abbeville. Whether it was because it was lunchtime or not we didn't hit any traffic of note despite one lane of the N28 being coned off whilst some verge work was being done.

Davwlk

294 posts

191 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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(the grave at the end of the row is one of the lads on the war memorial at work)

Nice gesture.

littlegreenfairy

10,133 posts

220 months

Sunday 6th July 2014
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I've heard that a container ship of cooking oil caught fire under the bridge and took it out. Heading to Rouen on Tues on the way back - is there a diversion?