an association appeals to the town hall
Works on Boulevard de la Méditerranée3and underground line, extension of line B… During the next few months, traffic will be disrupted in the streets of Toulouse but also on the waters of the city. Navigation on the Canal des Deux Mers and the Canal du Midi will indeed be disrupted by the upcoming construction sites in Toulouse. A situation of which the association is concerned”Toulouse over the O”who challenged the mayor of Toulouse in a letter on May 6.
It is a blockage of navigation for 5 to 6 months on the canals between Sète and Bordeaux at the request of our only Toulouse metropolis! We proposed that the works of the boulevard de la Méditerranée be grouped with those of the metro at the end of 2023, so that would limit the inconvenience”, writes Valérie Piganiol, president of the association.
The Canal des Deux Mers blocked for a total of 4 to 6 months
Bank reinforcement works are planned on Boulevard de la Méditerranée at the start of 2023, blocking navigation on the canal of the two seas “pendant two to three months” says Toulouse over the O. At the end of next year, this time it will be the creation of the 3and Toulouse metro line and the extension of line B which will cause disruptions on the Canal des Deux Mers but also the canal du midi, again for 2 to 3 months. That is, in total, 4 to 6 months during which navigation cannot be done correctly. But this is not the only sorrow of Toulouse over the O.
Many technicians (from competent services) and seasoned professionals wonder about the needs of a 50 ton crane for installing sheet piles. It is traditional on the canal to use 10-tonne cranes with pontoon-barges 5 meters wide without hindering navigation. […] But it would be better to know on what basis this choice was made: does the closure to navigation not make it possible to reduce the duration of the site, does the desired sinking depth justify a crane of this weight…” , adds Valérie Piganiol.
With a traffic of “4 to 5 boats per day”, the association questioned Jean-Luc Moudenc on the possibility of “stopping or slowing down the works by day the time that the boat passes, as for the management of the locks”.
She asks the mayor of Toulouse for answers
The president of the association ensures that these questions are forwarded to the mayor of toulouse “before seizing the candidates for the legislative elections of the linear Canal des Deux Mers”, also questioning him on the “environmental impact” of the construction sites, the compensation for the loss of revenue produced or even “the nuisances that the people of Toulouse will suffer of the districts concerned with the alternation of traffic, more than 25,000 vehicles per day on the boulevard de la Méditerranée”.
Toulouse au fil de l’O is thus calling for a “grouping of works” over the single period of the end of 2023, and a limitation of the speed of navigation and the circulation of boats and vehicles instead of a closure. Contacted by The Independent Opinionthe Toulouse City Hall declined to comment on the subject.
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