“Their protection at the side of the roads is essential”: the letter from Pompidou asking Chaban-Delmas to protect the trees. In 1970, the President of the Republic expressed indignation to his Prime Minister about a circular establishing the “systematic” felling of trees for road safety reasons.
A concern which resonates with the news of 2024, with many trees likely to soon be felled in Haute-Marne for security reasons, to the great indignation of associations. The road must become again for the motorist of the end of the 20th century what the path was for the pedestrian or the rider.