The government is embarking on major work. And especially in the renovation of our bridges. As part of the “France relaunch” plan - 100 billion euros injected into the French economy after the health crisis - the government will launch a vast plan to renovate bridges in France. To do this, the Secretary of State for Rurality Joël Giraud is going this Thursday to the Ardèche - where 158 municipalities have volunteered - to present the 11,500 municipalities whose bridge structures were in poor condition that the State will renovate. “
There was an observation from the Genoa bridge (
which crashed in 2018, Editor's note)
which had marked the spirits.
We realized that a certain number of works had not been appraised for a long time and in particular on small French municipalities, which have no engineering at all
,
”
explains Joël Giraud.
Enough to offer a contribution of 40 million euros to 28,000 municipalities, which already benefited from aid via Atesat (technical assistance provided by the State for reasons of solidarity and regional planning) to assess the bridges.
"
It is the legal responsibility of the municipalities, they are the ones who can trigger it (...).
but the state can put the money
"
,
says the secretary of state.
In total, 11,500 cities have given their consent.
Bridges that "
see road traffic
"
Cerema, an engineering center recognized by the State in particular in terms of infrastructure, is currently analyzing all the bridges for the State, asking the question of the structure's public or private status.
For the second category, the state is clear: it is not concerned with it.
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If there are concerns,
legal uncertainty will be lifted for the mayors who participate in the renovation of their bridges.
"
The expertise models that are launched for the renovation of bridges are based on spectrography, "
very little used in France, or on mega structures such as highways or the Millau viaduct (...) 'now or never for small labs can work
"
,
launches Joël Giraud. Before adding that all the bridges participating in this program "
see road traffic
". Hence for the municipalities the need to know the risks and to start work.
This project launched, a question then arises: with the approach of the presidential election, is this a response to this peripheral and rural France which often feels neglected? "
Both the Rural Agenda is a clear response to the crisis of yellow jackets, as this renewal comes from France plane that stimulus and the need was identified for a long time
"
,
according to the Secretary of State for Rural Affairs.
For him, the health crisis was "
an opportunity
" to provide more resources for "
technical projects
"
:
"
the recovery plan is often issues that had not been funded (... ). and foresight from several subjects that had not been treated.
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