After Haute-Marne, first department to go back to 90km / h on certain departmental roads, Seine-et-Marne should follow suit by March. The announcement was made this Sunday by the community.
The lowering of the speed to 80 km / h, decided in 2018 by the government, “penalized road users, in particular the Seine-et-Marnais who do not benefit from a dense public transport network”, writes Patrick Septiers, president (UDI) of the departmental council, in a press release.
The department explains that it carried out a study “taking into account the accidentology, the type of traffic, the speeds observed, the configuration of the roadway, the environment”. It made it possible to identify “490 km” of roads which “will be able to go back to 90km / h from the end of March in complete safety,” he adds.
500,000 euros of costs
As provided for by law, the local authority will seize the departmental road safety commission and the prefecture which will issue an “advisory” opinion. The department, “open to discussion to make adjustments”, will then take “road by road” orders.
Minimum cost of the operation: 500,000 euros, depending on the community.
“In a second step”, nearly 300 km of additional roads, requiring “preliminary improvements and / or additional studies, should also pass at 90 km / h”, adds the community.
“Heavy” decisions that must be “assumed”
Thursday, it was the chairman LR of the Haute-Marne departmental council who announced the return to 90 km / h on part of the roads.
Returning to 90 km / h, “these are decisions that are heavy and that we must assume in conscience”, had warned Edouard Philippe last January, announcing “historic” figures to the decline in road mortality (3,488 killed in 2018) after six months of 80 km / h.
According to a census carried out by AFP in December, 25 departments have announced their intention to return to 90 km / h.
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