Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Passenger cars may carry maximum five people.
All
passengers must wear seat belts.
Children less than 10kg must travel in backward-facing child seats; children up to 36kg
must travel in child seats in the vehicle's rear seat.
Turning right at a red light is illegal.
Only hands-free, speaker-phone mobiles are allowed - no handsets, no texting.
British drivers committing offences can receive on-the-spot fines and penalty points to
their licences.
Police in Provence rarely speak English - which can be advantageous. Be polite and
smile.
Drivers of two-wheeled motorised vehicles (except electric bicycles) must wear hel-
mets. No special licence is required for motorbikes under 50cc.
In forested areas, including Haute-Provence, Massif des Maures and Massif de
l'Estérel, unsealed fire roads, signposted DFCI (Défense de la Forêt Contre l'Incendie;
forest-fire defence team), are strictly off-limits to private vehicles.
PRIORITÉ À DROITE
Under the
priorité à droite
rule, any car entering an intersection (including a T-junction) from a road on your right
has the right of way, unless the intersection is marked '
vous n'avez pas la priorité
' (you do not have right of
way), or
cédez le passage
(yield). Drivers may shoot out from intersections directly in front of you: approach with
caution!
Priorité à droite
is suspended on priority roads, which are marked by a yellow diamond with white bor-
der; it's reinstated when you see a black bar through the yellow diamond.
Taxi
Find taxi ranks at train and bus stations, or telephone for radio taxis. Fares are metered,
with minimum fare €6; rates are roughly €1.60 per kilometre for one-way journeys.
Train
SNCF's regional network in Provence, served by
TER
(
www.ter-sncf.com/paca
)
, com-
prises two routes: along the coast, with inland track from Cannes to Grasse; and up the in-
terior, Marseille to Aix-en-Provence, Manosque, Sisteron and northward. Narrow-gauge
