fourgons non-conformes, préavis de grève, le parc routier reste dans l’impasse
Six months already that the workshop and the laboratory of the site, under the piles of the bridge of Aquitaine, are closed to the agents because of fragilities noted on the buildings. A known situation, but prevented by an additional report expressly commissioned at the beginning of 2022. There was recommended, in the face of the risk of “rockslide or falling equipment”, the pure and simple cessation of exploitation. If a transitional solution has been found for the laboratory, the twenty or so employees of the workshop are not quite at the end of their troubles.
Non-compliant vans
Some agents are failing in activity for lack of work tools, others have continued part of their task, themselves converting Departmental Council trucks into “mobile workshops” and projecting themselves into the Gironde operating centers . A system D which could not last: lack of ergonomics, overload or even unsecured transport of gas cylinders for welding operations were noted, after a right of alert exercised by this same Autonomous Syndicate-FAFPT. Result: “no van can repair breakdown service”. “We are in degraded mode of degraded mode”, sighs an agent of the road center, on condition of anonymity.
“We are in degraded mode of the degraded world”
“This development was not completely compliant”, recognizes Frédéric Perrière, Deputy Director General (DGA) in charge of the Territories at the Departmental Council. The quotes “have been launched”, and according to him, “we will have equipped a dozen vehicles by the end of the year”. Not quite convinced of the delivery of the vehicles within the expected time, the Autonomous Union-FAFPT is waving the red flag all the more since the inspection of the winter service equipment, salt spreaders and other planes, could not be carried out as the previous years.
“Find a solution, quickly”
“If a salt spreader breaks down, subcontracting is not in Bordeaux… We wouldn’t want there to be a disaster. We will have to find a solution, quickly, ”warns the mechanic of the road center. “If it’s found, everything will be fine”, continues Brice Buisson, but the essential is said: the confused situation of the service, unknown to the general public, could therefore have consequences for Girondin motorists at the height of a winter. vigorous. “The agents have always taken preventive action. Between summer and autumn, they prepare the material for the winter. Our maintenance policy revolves around prevention. We will find solutions, that is one of the priority things, and we hope for a mild winter”, says Frédéric Perrière, agreeing that the “device is less reactive”.
The DGA of the Territories may well redirect the attachment of the Departmental Council to its management from the outset, but there is still time for mistrust. “Maintain the management, but perhaps at another level”, opposes the anonymous mechanic. No doubt there would be no call for a walkout if the future of the road fleet had not become clearer since the spring. Because, in the background, the question remains: where will the Department rebuild its service?
Beychac-et-Caillau on the table
While the move to Beychac-et-Caillau, which has been in the works for several years, had a lead in the wing due to poorly thought-out accessibility for… heavyweights, the subject is back on the table thanks to two events. First, the conclusions of a study on the demolition-reconstruction of the Bacalan site, which dampened the last ardor, revealing that the Bacalan option would have “an equivalent cost even higher than Beychac-et-Caillau”, moreover with “the need to do work with a spoon”, explains Frédéric Perrière.
Then the holding of a recent meeting “with the operators of the neighboring site”, in Beychac-et-Caillau, was the occasion to present a new service option “less greedy in space” – the first proposal had been refused. A return is expected “mid-November”. “If it’s OK, we launch Beychac-et-Caillau in stride. “In the best case, the opening would be projected within” three years “. Hence the obligation to find a medium-term site for the workshop, which could be that of Sdis, another departmental service, also in Bordeaux-Nord. And time is running out.