BEYNAC : 140 000 Visiting the Castle Each Year..

A Busy Touristic Village

:: In Beynac, traffic difficulties take place during the few busiest weeks of the summer holidays only.
In 2015, the town council hired “PCR Mesure & Analyse” which recorded 9.500 vehicles per day in average, of which 70 trucks, during the one week in August which knows the highest traffic in the year.

The County Council claiming an average of 12.000 vehicles a day of which 300 trucks, a new count was made under their own authority during the summer 2016. The results have never been released.

Analysing Results

:: PCR Mesure & Analyse concluded that traffic is blocked during short periods of time because :
- of the narrowness of the lanes in the curvy part of the road which doesn’t allow for trucks, buses or camper-vans to cross smoothly simultaneously
- also between 4 pm and 7 pm, the flux of vehicles is continuous, inducing traffic jams like in any touristic destination.

Road work to widen the lanes is in progress, coupled with a pedestrian promenade above the river.

The Beynac bypass project would not prevent tourists from driving through a village awarded as one of the most beautiful in France.

It would not reduce the number of cars and buses going up to the castle, or looking for a parking place, nor of trucks that have to go through Beynac (hôtels, restaurants, farmers, deliveries..).

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