A10/A85 interchange south of Tours

WAZE is always up to date 😉 

Thanks for the suggestion. I've never used Waze but will give it a go.

I've only used it in the UK, but it shows live traffic & will suggest alternative routes when there's a traffic jam etc .... also gives warning of some potholes, cars on the hard shoulder & traffic plod

Via Michelin shows there are still some roadworks on the  east bound A85 but they don't appear very significant?

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Thanks, I agree those roadworks don't appear significant.

Perhaps the very major works which caused us problems last year have finished but I was just trying to work out why google maps route shows a diversion away from that section of the A85.

I wen that way last summer, and was able to follow the diversion, which was OK, but you do need to look out for it and take it steady.  It should be done by summer 2023.

Thank you.

Hi David, I travel this way from Ouistreham to Agde. I went through Tours in May las year & there was no diversion. I am travelling same journey again in 2 weeks & heading South, you have leave at Junction 23 of A10 & then rejoin A85 further along than you normally would, The diversion seems simple enough, off at the junction to a peage, up a brow of a hill to junction take a left turn and then a straight road which just 3 roundabout's to go straight over & then a left turn to the peage to rejoin the A85.

When heading back North there is no diversion in place.

I would rather stay on the A85 myself, but if needs must, it looks a much better diversion route than i have been on before.

When you join the A85, there is nice services approx 6 miles down the road  - Aire du Val De Cher, my first stop after getting off the ferry at Ouistreham - approx 3 hours.