Work on the A61 motorway at a standstill between Toulouse and Carcassonne
Work on the A61 motorway near Villefranche-de-Lauragais, between Toulouse and Carcassonne, has been on hold since the end of March due to a conflict between Vinci Autoroutes and the company in charge of the Spie Batignolles site.
With the beautiful days settling in and Toulouse residents heading to the beach at the weekend, the question of the construction site of the “motorway of the two seas”, which rests Toulouse in Narbonne, is becoming more and more thorny.
It has been 7 weeks since the widening works of the A61 have been suspended on the 14 kilometer stretch near Villefranche-de-Lauragais. In question, a conflict between the contracting authority Vinci Autoroutes and the company in charge of the site, Spie Batignolles.
Vinci Autoroutes talks about a construction site”abandoned before completion“, while the company Spie Batignolles evokes from additional unpaid work.
The company holding the expansion contract […] which undertook to carry out work of €61,274,798 excluding tax within 44 months (ie 3 years and 8 months), abandoned the site before its completion.
Vinci Highways
Spie Batignolles withdrew its teams from the sector concerned and sent its itinerant workers to other sites. For its part, Vinci Autoroutes claims to have launched a new call for tenders to select the company that will complete the work, announced in January 2019. Vinci is committed to completing the site in 2023, in accordance with the contractual schedule. with the state.
The transformation sites of the 2×2 into 2×3 lanes which take place further south are not disturbed because other companies are mandated there. ” At the other end of the A61, theWork on the section in the Aude is continuing. Between Lézignan-Corbières and the areas of Bizanet (Aude) the final wearing course is finished. The bring into traffic of the third way possible sera in the next weeksonce the reception procedures have been completed by the administration. Between the Bizanet rest areas and the A61/A9 junction, the work is progressing rapidly: the widening by the banks will be completed in the fall for a planned commissioning after laying the wearing course in the spring of 2023″ details Vinci Autoroutes.
In the immediate future and to ensure the best traffic conditions for users of the section during this period, Vinci Autoroutes is carrying out from 9 May to 20 May […] allowing the speed to be reduced to 110 km/h on certain parts of the route, against 90 km/h on the rest of the section being widened.
Vinci Highways
The purpose of these works is to operate at regular saturation of the A61, mostly two-lane, in the summer period. “La route de la mer des Toulouse” is used by 40,000 vehicles per day on average, twice as much during the summer.