While the government is opposed to the 50 km/h ring road, the 40 million motorists association supports it.
Get ready, in less than a week the Paris ring road will only be limited to 50 km/h.
Great opposition to the ring road
And of course, this measure is far from pleasing everyone. Thus, in an interview given to Le Parisien on September 24, François Durovray, the new Minister of Transport, expressed his opposition to the decision of the Mayor of Paris. He indeed recalled that this decision could not be taken unilaterally by the municipality. And now the latter is supported by the “association”40 million motorists“, an organization defending the rights of French drivers. In a press release, the latter, represented by its general delegate Pierre Chasseray, reiterated its position. For it, “this measure would not allow any significant gain, neither on polluting emissions, nor on noise pollution, nor on road safety, but could on the other hand worsen the traffic conditions of users.” The current proposal to lower the limitation from 70 to 50 km/h is perceived by many motorists as a restrictive measure which further complicates travel.
A widely contested measure
The association explains that “fortunately, the handling of the file by the Minister of Transport and the Prefect of Police of the capital should allow the project not to see the light of day, to the great relief of the users of the ring road, who already suffer from the presence of some 18 speed cameras that line the axis”. It also specifies that “No impact and traffic transfer study has been carried out on this project, which is a first major error. The second is that there are still experiments that have been carried outas in Rennes, which demonstrated the limits and even negative effects of a reduction in the speed limit, and that the Mayor of Paris simply ignored them, because the conclusions did not suit her.” For 40 MA, “the Mayor of Paris took advantage of the absence of an “active” government at the beginning of September” to promote her measure. And this obviously had a lot of trouble getting through to motorists.
It remains to be seen whether the measure will still come into force on October 1 or whether it will be postponed.
Source: www.autoplus.fr
