the gamble of the road to toulouse
An example of intermunicipal cooperation? Located…
An example of intermunicipal cooperation? Located on either side of the road to Toulouse, Villenave-d’Ornon and Bègles were to see 1,300 housing units built, 400 for the first, 900 for the second, all accompanied by various public facilities, between squares and walks. But today, the Villenavaise municipality is brandishing the threat of a unilateral withdrawal from the project.
“The different communities had voted with both hands, the rules were known, they seemed to have changed”
This is the latest response to the dispute over the development promised to the Toulouse road from the second half of 2025. Mayor (various right) of Villenave-d’Ornon, Patrick Pujol is campaigning for the creation, in at the same time, a relief route at the exit of the Béglais Terre-Sud eco-district, with the idea of limiting car traffic on the same Toulouse road. Refusal of the mayor of Bègles, the ecologist Clément Rossignol Puech, who could be ratified in March by Bordeaux Métropole on the occasion of the presentation of the results of the public consultation carried out last summer on the subject.
“Disengagement”
First deputy mayor of Villenave-d’Ornon, Michel Poignonec offered himself a platform during the last Metropolitan Council, on January 28, announcing “the disengagement, probably in the coming weeks, from the ZAC [zone d’aménagement concertée] intercommunale” which oversees the urban reconfiguration of 15 hectares around the road to Toulouse. “Among the tools that had predestined this ZAC, there was a traffic study that highlighted the need to create the equipment necessary for its service,” he says.
And to enumerate “a new roundabout, the one-way setting of several lanes in Villenave, the removal of a traffic light intersection and the famous soft lane of Deux-Esteys”. “The different communities had voted with both hands, the rules were known, they seemed to have changed”, regrets Michel Poignonec. First targeted, Clément Rossignol Puech replied that he “accepted at the time a study on the bar, but not the bar as such”. “This ZAC was not consubstantially linked to the creation of the Deux-Esteys bar. We revisit the story a bit, ”he says.
“We revisit history”
In a letter sent in May 2018 to Alain Juppé, then president of Bordeaux Métropole, the mayor of Bègles was more conciliatory: “Regarding the load shedding bar, the City confirms its agreement for the load shedding link between rue des Deux-Esteys and rue Danielle Mitterrand. We therefore ask for the launch of its study. “And, on the strength of the study, “I said niet”, replies today Clément Rossignol Puech, denouncing “the exegesis of a letter from 2018”.
“I don’t know if the municipality of Villenave has properly measured the financial and legal issues for the Metropolis and the City”
Beyond the incriminated missive, brandished by Villenave-d’Ornon during a preparatory meeting in Bordeaux Métropole and which, according to Michel Poignonec, would have led to the report in March of the deliberation on the road to Toulouse, the development of Was this itinerary one of the founding principles of the ZAC? No trace in the consultation report of September 2015, the implementation file of February 2016 or the declaration of public utility voted in March 2017.
Parallel studies
The agency in charge of the preliminary study of “50,000 dwellings” had mentioned a local service in broad strokes, largely bypassing Terre-Sud for longer… the railway line. And it was in 2016, during a steering committee on the road to Toulouse, that the Deux-Esteys route option appeared. “They instrumentalize the Fab to solve another problem”, retorts Christine Bost, mayor of Eysines and president of this Fab, or Fabrique de Bordeaux Métropole, the local public company charged by Bordeaux Métropole with the “50,000 housing” program.
“The Fab is very worried, it has already bought land and wants to file the permits – 180 housing units have been built or are in the process of being built”, remarks Michel Poignonec, before warning: “For the rest, we say niet . It will be a loss-making ZAC, unless Bègles does all the other housing on its side. »