The “second ring road” of Toulouse will not be done: the State rejects the proposal of Jean-Luc Moudenc
Through David Saint-Sernin
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” A second ring roadit’s good for the environment and it’s good for the workers”.
It was the candidate’s slogan Jean-Luc Moudenc during the campaign municipal 2014 a Toulouse. With the 3e metro line, the proposal for a second ring road for Toulouse was his other flagship project for decongest the Toulouse conurbation.
Dump 25% of transit vehicles
“Public transport vehicles now occupy a quarter of the area of the current ring road. Let’s divert these vehicles on another road axis! A quarter less occupation, that’s enough to make the current ring road more fluid, ”developed a campaign document from the candidate.
Bypass Toulouse by the East
This “other road axis”, in other words a new motorway, was to bypass Toulouse from the east. Located between 15 and 40 kilometers from the agglomeration, this ax was to divert vehicles from Toulouse that had nothing to do there.
The new motorway would have connected to the A 61, at the level of Villefranche-de-Lauragais, before joining Verfeil to follow the Girou valley, a tributary of the Garonne, until it connects to the A 62 north of Toulouse.
A revised project
A project already considered in the mid-2000s as part of a major public debate, rejected in 2008, buried at the time of the Grenelle de l’Environnement, and therefore put back in the saddle by Jean-Luc Moudenc in the fall of 2013.
A project then considered as part of the “multimodal prospective studies” provided by the State, local authorities and Tisséo, in May 2017.
It is the County Council, prepare for the projectwho had the responsibility, by his own admission, of “re-objectifying the studies”.
The “limited impact” of the bypass project
Following this study, the State, on Wednesday January 25, 2023, delivered its verdict on the advisability of carrying out this major motorway bypass to the east of Toulouse:
“The modeling of the effects of a new structuring infrastructure to the east of the agglomeration shows that its impact on ring road traffic has remained limited, with transit traffic only being partially captured. An improvement in local connections in the East could be further developed in the context of subsequent studies, in response to a fairly marked need for local short-distance travel”.
“Not prosecuted as it stands”
Consequently, the project is not “continued as it is and the deepening of a reflection is related to the acquisition of new mobility data at the scale of the territory”, indicates the prefecture of Haute-Garonne.
According to satisfactory evidence Toulouse news had access, the Departmental Council, in its study, had noted in particular ” major technical constraints ” and one ” significant environmental impact due to part of the length of the project (nearly 50 kilometres, editor’s note) and the other part of its passage through a particularly sensitive environment, the Girou valley (wetlands, flood zones, etc.) over almost half of linear sound”.
His conclusion was echoed by the State: “The project does not provide a truly satisfactory response to the objectives of the new infrastructure. The impact on peripheral traffic is limited and transit traffic is only partially captured”.
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