The massive presence of mayors, parliamentarians and elected officials of the departmental and regional council is a show of force, and translates if necessary “the concern and the mobilization of an entire territory”, according to the mayor (LR) of Franconville, Xavier Melki .
Forty elected officials from Val-d'Oise gathered this Saturday around the president (Free!) Of the region Valérie Pécresse, to show their opposition to the project.
Indeed, the State plans to reserve for carpooling the left lane of the A15 motorway between Franconville and the Gennevilliers bridge, over a distance of 8 km.
Signs were even put up along the axis used every week by 1.5 million vehicles, before being quickly covered.
The cost of the site would be five million euros, according to Marie-Christine Cavecchi.
"Last July, the State informed us of its project on an experimental basis, underlines the president (LR) of the department and deputy mayor of Franconville, whose city council voted on Thursday a motion against the project.
I expressed concerns and questions.
I regret not having been heard.
This is not ecology, this is not common sense, this is ideology.
"And recall the inconvenience encountered in 2018, after the collapse of a retaining wall of the Gennevilliers viaduct, which resulted in the closure of the bridge, before a partial reopening.
Disturbances which had also caused traffic jams in the surrounding towns, used as relief routes.
Valérie Pécresse: "There, the project consists in removing a track"
“We believe in carpooling,” explains Valérie Pécresse.
Ultimately, it will make it possible to have more than 1.1 passengers per car.
But I don't believe in forced carpooling.
I fought to get into the law that additional lanes could be created to accommodate carpooling.
Each time, we chose to create a dedicated channel.
There, the project is to remove a track.
We want to develop the emergency lane.
The elected official has two main reservations about the project.
“The timing is totally unsuitable, she slips.
We are in a period of Covid, where many residents have taken their cars back.
Then there is a risk of very strong congestion with traffic jams.
And what pollutes the most are traffic jams.
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Forty elected officials gathered around the (Free!) President of the region, Valérie Pécresse, to show their opposition to the project.
LP / Christophe Lefèvre
The project also arouses the concern of the inhabitants crossed this Saturday.
"We have already been annoyed when there was the bridge, if it is forever it will be a hassle", fulminates Salva, retired from Franconville.
"It's a bad idea," says Djelloul, craftsman in the building, inhabitant of Taverny.
Every day, I go to Suresnes and Puteaux.
It is already difficult.
An opinion shared by Enzo, from Osny.
“I already leave at 6 am every morning to go to Paris or the inner suburbs, says the door repairer.
It's a real pain.
So with one less track… ”
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In Ile-de-France, the three main carpooling players, Klaxit, Karos and Blablalines, say they are impatiently waiting for this dedicated route.
It will make it possible to restart a sector which is suffering from the health crisis and the loss of subsidies from Ile-de-France Mobilités.
"The dedicated channel will be a giant advertisement and a great communication tool to make us known," says Julien Honnart of Klaxit.
When motorists stuck in traffic, see vehicles going faster in a reserved lane, it could give them ideas ”.
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“There is still enormous potential for carpooling in Ile-de-France.
This will perhaps be what will promote the passage to the act for those who are still in a phase of hesitation ”, estimates as for him, Adrien Tahon, of Blablalines.
“This will obviously be a very good thing for carpooling in Ile-de-France, rejoices Olivier Binet, also from Karos.
But we've been talking about it for so long, that we remain cautious.
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Contacted, the Direction des Routes d'Ile-de-France (Dirif) "does not wish to comment on the development work on the A15 motorway".