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Paris opens priority road lanes reserved for Olympic traffic

The "Paris 2024" lane on the Paris ring road, which is reserved for priority vehicles for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, pictured on 30 June 2024. © Julien De Rosa / AFP

From Monday, nearly 200 kilometres of road lanes in and around Paris are closed to ordinary traffic to facilitate travel for athletes, emergency services and others driving to and from the 2024 Olympic Games, which open in 11 days' time.

The Olympic lanes, marked "Paris 2024", cover 185 km across four major motorways leading into Paris, the city ring road and certain thoroughfares within the centre.

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