"We will do everything to slow down the project": to the north-east of Chartres, the A154 motorway project is hitting the residents.

“It's the iron pot against the earthen pot… They're going to win.

Jean-Marc and his wife are saddened.

They have lived in Saint-Perst for about thirty years.

Rural and residential commune par excellence north-east of Chartres (Eure-et-Loir), it has approximately 2,200 inhabitants.

Fauna and flora, ponds and pretty woods coexist in a beautiful harmony.

But all this peaceful, silent living world may one day have to embrace concrete, tar and pollution.

The A154 motorway between Allaines (Eure-et-Loir) and Nonancourt (Eure) is at the heart of all the debates, and its bypass to the east of Chartres more particularly.

"It's a real sea serpent", indignant the mayor, Jean-Marc Cavet, with his counterpart from the neighboring town of Gasville-Oisème, the city councilor Romain Rouault.

“Saint-Perst will be cut in two with a 1,200 m structure to cross our magnificent valley of the Eure and Roguenette.

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"With the prevailing winds, we will de facto receive all the pollution, whether ambient or even sound"

Romain Rouault, mayor of Gasville-Oisème

Elected officials and a good number of inhabitants fear that this bypass to the east of the city of Chartres will “kill biodiversity and massacre the landscape”. The chief magistrate of Gasville-Oisème is certain: “With the prevailing winds, we will de facto receive all the pollution, whether ambient or even sound ... My town will be bordered all the way by the motorway. "And the icing on the cake:" The interchange will be built a few dozen meters from the densest area of ​​the village. "

They were more than 150, last week, to attend the projection of a documentary-fiction on the project of the future highway.

And this project to transform the RN 154 into the A154 motorway is not new.

More than thirty years ago, the project was already under study.

But in 2018, a serious boost: The project is declared of public utility.

Since then, things have stagnated.

"A friend sold her second home in Saint-Perst for fear that the motorway would be made"

Philippe, retired

This debate, Philippe, a retiree who walks his dog, knows it, "alas", too well. "For thirty-five years, I have heard about it ... If it materializes, it's sad, because it will pass over the Gorget ponds ..." He pities his nature, his 156 species of insects, including agrions of Mercury, its péliade vipers, its amphibians and other harriers of the reeds, but also the inhabitants. “At the time, I had a friend who had a second home in Saint-Perst. She sold it for fear that the freeway would be made. Maybe she was right? »A few streets away, Romain and Patricia, a young couple, have just invested in a house. They too fear that its value will be devalued if the project is successful.

But one thing is certain for the two mayors: “We will do everything to slow down the project.

"They will organize, this Saturday, December 4, two citizen marches" to show the population where the highway will pass. "

Departure at 2 p.m. from the Graviers field in Saint-Perst and at 1:30 p.m. from the Gasville-Oisème playground.