the mayor of Villenave-d’Ornon denounces “an ecological dictatorship”
Cycle paths, dedicated lane for the Liane 5 bus, requalification of rue des Deux Esteys or perhaps a one-way street … Work is planned for 2025 on the road to Toulouse for facilitate the movement of buses, bicycles and pedestrians. Whilea consultation was about to end last fall, the town hall of Bordeaux asked that the “the mutability of the arrangements so that the axis can be passed one day in one direction”.
“It’s unacceptable” (Patrick Pujol mayor DVD of Villenave-d’Ornon)
“It’s stupid, it will shift all the traffic jams in the small streets already difficult to access”, says Guillaume, a resident of the Toulouse road employed in a restaurant located in the Bastide district. “Me, I’m not going home by bike or scooter at two in the morning when I get out of work.”
A one-way street for better breathing and better pedaling
Gateway to downtown Bordeaux, the Toulouse road that sees “scrolling between 7,000 and 12,000 vehicles per day, and in each direction, is one of the routes in the Metropolis on which residents are subjected to the most degraded air quality”, at the services of Bordeaux Métropole.
“The dust that comes in is monumental! (Catherine, a pharmacist)
“It is clear that there is dust, we must open to ventilate especially in the epidemic context but at the same time, it brings in the dust”, explains Catherine, a pharmacist from the Toulouse route. Cyclists interviewed by France Bleu Gironde also defend the possibility of a one-way passage. “I hope so because this is very dangerous”, says Isabelle.
“I am not asking for the boulevards to be one-way!”
The mayors of Talence and Villenave-d’Ornon judge “unthinkable“to cross the road to Toulouse one-way. The elected various right Patrick Pujol is critical both in substance and in form. Recalling that the mayor of Bordeaux made his controversial contribution on the last day of the consultation on October 20 last, the mayor of Villenave-d’Ornon denounces “an ecological dictatorship “.
“Those who can only get around by car or public transport should be disadvantaged compared to those we want to promote, bicycle users” (Patrick Pujol)
“Already in order to be able to put these cycle lanes, we are removing parking spaces, it is unacceptable, warns Patrick Pujol, and on the one-way street, even the services of the metropolis say that this would lead to an immeasurable degradation of traffic “.
The town hall of Bordeaux regrets “the red cloth which is agitated”
Faced with criticism from elected officials from Talence and Villenave-d’Ornon, Didier Jeanjean, the deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of nature in the city and peaceful neighborhoods, recalls that nothing has yet been decided. “We have asked that the mutability in the long term, that is to say in ten years, of the Toulouse road on a one-way road be studied in a complementary manner “.
“We are not saying – we have to do it, we are asking ourselves the question” (Didier Jeanjean, deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of peaceful neighborhoods)
“We are waiting for the studies and then we will decide, but it is not us who will decide, we will decide with the mayors, with the inhabitants, certainly following a democratic consultation, and there, perhaps, that this project will be implemented. artwork.”