Toulouse. A bridge will be created to franchise the ring road in front of a booming neighborhood
Through David Saint Sernin
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There will soon be a new bridge to franchise the Toulouse ring road.
Thursday October 14, 2021, Toulouse Metropolis will launch a new procedure for build a footbridge to cross the ring road south of Toulouse.
Between Montaudran and the scientific complex
This gateway will only be dedicated cyclists and pedestrians.
The project to create a gateway for active modes above the A 620 ring road, which runs alongside the CREPS, consists of creating a link between the new Toulouse Aerospace district and the scientific complex. This footbridge will link the existing and future Montaudran district with the Rangueil campus and the large cycle path along the Canal du Midi, explains Toulouse Métropole for its part.
Few bridges in the area
In an area where the ring road remains a border that is difficult to cross, where only the link for modes, the Multimodal Link of the South-East (LMSE) is located several meters away, and while the district of Montaudran, in full development, will welcome thousands of new inhabitants in the years inhabitants , this new footbridge will allow better link the Rangueil scientific complex to the Montaudran district.
Linked process
There are still a few steps to take before the project becomes a reality.
Thursday, Toulouse Métropole relaunches the project management competition for the creation of this gateway, and, to do this, will re-elect members of the tender committee to sit on the jury.
A last bridge in 2016
The same project management competition, for the same project, had been opened at the end of 2020 but following “the resignation of six full and substitute members”, the community must proceed “to a new designation of the whole of this commission. “.
The last bridge built on the Toulouse ring road dates from 2016. intended for the Borderouge interchange, northeast of the Pink City.
Two 150-meter walkways in the city center
More in the city center, two other bridges will happen. These two footbridges should link the Croix-de-Pierre and Empalot districts to the Ile du Ramier.
This represents an investment of approximately 10 million euros for each gateway which will allow pedestrians and cyclists to access Ramier Island in complete safety. Each walkway will be four meters wide and will separate the different uses. They will be 150 meters long.
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