these major projects that will change the landscape in Occitania
Section of motorway, metro line, new construction… In Occitania, a lot of work is planned for 2023. Overview of the sites called to emerge from the ground.
Who says new year, says new ambitions. In Occitania, many works are planned. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many construction sites have seen their implementation schedule unfavorable and postponed to 2023. We take stock of the largest construction sites which will begin this year in the former Midi-Pyrénées.
The first construction works for the 3rd metro line have already started in 2022 in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). After 2 years of preparatory work, the first drill shots were given in mid-December in the quarters of the 7 deniers. But a substantial step, which has already caused a lot of talk, is due to begin this 1st quarter of 2023. This involves moving the monument to the glory of the combatants, located in the city center of the pink city, to François Verdier.
The building must indeed be moved to allow the extension of the François Verdier station, the future connecting station between line B and the new metro line. The docks will be located under the listed historic monument 35 meters deep.
Due to the works for the digging of the station, as a preservation measure, the monument to the glory of the combatants of Haute-Garonne will be temporarily moved and reinstalled in the same location at the end of the works.
The 1,373-ton monument will be surrounded by a steel and wood exoskeleton and propelled by a system of jacks.
It will leave its original location in July 2023 and will be stored on a reinforced concrete slab a few meters further, on the François Verdier alleys. It will return to its place at the end of the work.by 2027“.
In Albi, the Pont-Vieux which overlooks the Tarn is going to get a makeover. In order to ensure the preservation of this crossing point integrated in the Middle Ages, traffic will be modified to maintain a single lane. “If we want to continue driving on it in several hundred years, we must ease the weight on the equipment“, indicates the Agglo du Grand Albigensian to our colleagues from the Dépêche du Midi.
Work will begin in March 2023 and is expected to end in 2025.
During the first four months of work, intended for the excavation of the roads and the renovation of the networks, access to the bridge will be completely closed. Likewise during the last four months of the project. A free shuttle will then be set up depending on the Madeleine and Vignan car parks.
Between these two deadlines, the bridge will be equipped with metal scaffolding and accessible only in one direction, between the cathedral and the right bank. Enough to give it a new look during the 16 months of this stage of the work.
2023 may also be the birth year of the footbridge, Albi’s 4th bridge.
Initially, delivery was scheduled for 2019. But numerous disputes have slowed down the project, in particular between the company in charge of the site and the prime contractor. The case is currently in the hands of a court expert.
In Tarbes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, the construction of the departmental archives piloted by the departmental council began in November 2022. They will be installed in the place of the former École Normale, in the city center.
In total, 7,560 m² will be rehabilitated for a total cost of 17,750,000 euros. “This project is one of the most ambitious carried out by the Department in recent years.“, declares Michel Pélieu, president of the Hautes-Pyrénées departmental council.
Construction should be completed by the end of 2024.
Still in the Tarn, it is a construction site that has not finished talking about it, that of the A69 motorway which should link Toulouse to Castres. As soon as the project was presented, many opponents and environmental associations put forward an idea”in contradiction with national commitments in the fight against climate change“. After months of controversy, the construction of this new road could begin in early 2023. A public inquiry into environmental authorizations began on November 28. It is due to end on January 11. At the end, the prefects of the Tarn and Haute-Garonne and the Occitanie Region will give (or not) the green light for the start of the work.
On the roads of the Gers this time, the construction site for the transition to 2×2 lanes of the last section of the RN124 depending from Auch to Toulouse has started. He can reach the pink city in just 40 minutes compared to an hour at present. The end of the works is scheduled for 2027.
It is still necessary that the good resolution of this new year is to keep the announced calendar.