The project for a second bypass east of Toulouse is buried
The proposal made by Jean-Luc Moudenc to create a second ring road to the east of Toulouse in order to relieve congestion on the ring road is definitively excluded from the plans for the city, following a consultation carried out between the State, the Region, the Department, the Metropolis and Tisséo.
The idea put forward by Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc upon his election in 2014, which consisted in create a second ring road to the east of Toulouse, with the aim of relieving traffic congestion on the ring road, was later buried. Indeed, for more than five years, the State, the Occitanie Region, the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne, Toulouse Métropole and the Tisséo public transport network have been jointly studying all the solutions that could improve the daily movements of the inhabitants, reduce road congestion and better serve the territory. Projects to create a railway star (RER) and of Express Bike Network (REV) have in particular been scrutinized. But contrary to these last two proposals, the project of a second ring road has been discarded.
Limited impact on device congestion
Two scenarios were envisaged for the construction of a possible eastern ring road. The first was to create a motorway that linked the A61 (motorway between Toulouse and Narbonne) near Villefranche-de-Lauraguais, at the A62 (motorway between Toulouse and Bordeaux) passing near the town of Verfeil. The second provided for a route closer to the Pink City. The bypass would start on the A61 at Castanet-Tolosan and would also join the A62, but crossing Saint-Orens, Balma, and the A68 (motorway between Toulouse and Marssac-sur-Tarn, near Albi).
For these two possibilities, “theimpact on traffic on the eastern ring road remains limited, transit traffic being only partially captured”, conclude the rapporteurs of the study carried out by the State, the local authorities and Tisséo. However, other projects could be carried out in this part of the Metropolis. “An improvement in local connections in the East could be further studied in the context of subsequent studies, in response to a fairly marked need for local short-distance travel”, they retain.