Toulouse. A new road interchange will be integrated on the ring road
By David Saint-Sernin
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More than five years after the construction of the Borderouge interchange, a new interchange will see the light of day on the Toulouse ring road. And it will, once again, be located on the eastern ring road.
Between Lasbordes and Montaudran
This new interchange will, in fact, see the light of day between exit 17 of the Cité de l’espace (Lasbordes interchange) and exit 18 of Montaudran.
In addition to the interchange, the project includes a 1.2 kilometer long road link between the ring road and the RD 16 in Quint-Fonsegrives. This link includes infrastructure for pedestrians and cycles.
“This is a new infrastructure which will make it possible to strengthen the road network in this sector, will improve the safety of the ring road and relieve the two other interchanges located next door”, indicates Grégoire Carneiro, vice-president of Toulouse Métropole in charge of roads.
Relieve other exchangers
This project, in the pipeline for more than 15 years, therefore aims to reduce the area’s two other interchanges, but also to “offload” the Revel road from automobile traffic, to improve service to the development areas existing and future ones, to strengthen the network of soft links (pedestrians and cycles), to improve safety conditions on the ring road and to support the development of the east of Toulouse”, indicates Toulouse Métropole.
The sector has already welcomed new infrastructures such as the Capio Croix-du-Sud clinic, one of the largest in the conurbation.
It is a few hectometres from this new interchange that a new district will also emerge, the future Malepère district, which will welcome 15,000 people by 2035.
This is also where we find one of the large shopping centers of the agglomeration with the Leclerc de Saint-Orens and its commercial area.
Project cost: 79 million euros
Toulouse Métropole has just launched a call for tenders for the sum of 23 million euros. “It’s a technical and procedural call for tenders. It concerns the regulatory procedure, the technical aspect and the connection of the interchange to the current road network which will be carried out by Toulouse Métropole”, specifies Grégoire Carneiro.
A project which will cost a total of 79 million euros, including 57 for Toulouse Métropole (in which the 23 million euros of the call for tenders are included, editor’s note) and 22 million for Vinci Autoroutes which will carry out the exchanger.
The calendar
The provisional timetable provides for the public inquiry to be held in 2023 with the start of work which could take place in 2024 and commissioning which could take place in 2028.
Reserves
This project, in the pipeline for more than 15 years, still arouses reservations because of its location, in the heart of an area preserved by urbanization. A project deemed “useless and destructive” by environmentalists for many years.
Grégoire Carneiro assures him, “We will touch the natural environment as little as possible”.
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