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Return to 90 km / h: is your department concerned ?

Road safety - Back to 90 km-h: is your department concerned? -

Several departments are considering a return to the speed of 90 km / h on certain sections of the road. And at your home ? Rather 80s style or 90s atmosphere? MNC is starting a speed limit tour of France: we are counting on your participation !

The have already started their return to 90 km / h, in accordance with the relaxation voted by the National Assembly in June 2019. 48 departments were then declared in favor, but what about today ?

Le Journal moto du Net invites you to us, in order to regularly update this Tour de France of authorized speeds.

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Reminder: only roads with a double safety strip and without any intersection or circulation of agricultural machinery can claim to return to 90 km / h…

90 km / h return

Ain (01)

"Certain portions deserve to return to the old speed", assures the president of the department Jean Deguerry (LR) quoted by the local radio station Radio Scoop: "we noted that lowering the speed of 10 km / h does not necessarily reduces the number of road deaths, unfortunately ".

Combine (03)

In the Allier, "there will be a return to 90 km / h but not everywhere", indicates the president of the departmental council Claude Riboulet (UDI) quoted by La Montagne.

Hautes-Alpes (05)

"I would have preferred a general backtracking of the State", regrets the president of the departmental council, Jean-Marie Bernard (LR), but the law allowing to derogate locally from the 80 km / h "is an advance and I will implement ".

The maximum authorized speed of 90 km / h could return "before summer" 2020 on "about 15% of the departmental network", estimates Le Dauphine Libere which envisages several portions such as "the RD 1075 between Laragne-Monteglin and the pass from La Croix Haute, the 994 linking Gap to Serres via Veynes or the 1091 from Briançon to Lautaret and a few others ". These are axes "where people travel every day to go to work and where we stick radars … well, not radars, piggy banks", sums up the elected official.

Dawn (10)

According to France 3 Grand Est, the departmental council will study the roads of the Aube on a case-by-case basis. "On a subject that has become as sensitive, even controversial, the decisions that will be taken must be based on objective considerations known to all", indicates Philippe Pichery, president of the departmental council (without label).

Cantal (15)

At the instigation of Vincent Decoeur, the departmental council wishes to "repeal the regulation of 80 km / h over the entire department", understands the association 40 million motorists (40 MA).

Road safety - Back to 90 km-h: is your department concerned? -

The president of the departmental council, Bruno Faure, carried out an accident study by questioning "all the mayors to know the dangerous points where the speed must remain limited, even lowered", specifies France Bleu. "But for the rest of the departmental network, he is more than ever in favor of a return to 90 km / h. The CDSR’s opinion is only advisory, Bruno Faure therefore recalled this Friday that he is ready to assume this decision and when the government talks about 206 lives saved thanks to the implementation of 80 km / h, Bruno Faure recalls that in Cantal, the number of road victims has remained stable ".

"Imagine that the Cantal returns to 90 km / h and that we see the same accident trend as in the departments loyal to the government and to 80 km / h, it would be the objective end of the measure that would become even more indefensible ", already predicts Daniel Quero, president of 40 MA.

Charente (16)

In Charente, François Bonneau (president of the department) and Didier Jobit (vice-president) denounce "the pressures" that the State would exert on the departments which want to return to 90 km / h, according to our colleagues from La Charente Libre.

Quoted by Le Parisien, François Bonneau assures us that "the 80 km / h have had no effect on the flow of traffic or on the accidentology" and envisages a return to 90 km / h on "450 km of departmental roads for a total cost of 200,000 euros ".

Correze (19)

The president of the department Pascal Coste, fierce opponent of 80 km / h, wants to return to 90 on all of the 1983 sections of roads outside the agglomeration of Corrèze.. 

Road safety - Back to 90 km-h: is your department concerned? -

"We looked at things closely with the accidentology and we think that it is pointless to stigmatize the car in rural areas because it is part of the advantages with also its risks", he explains in Le Populaire du Center . "We are therefore back to a logic of 30 or 50 km / h in urban areas, which is the responsibility of mayors, and 70, 90 or 110 km / h on the departmental network".

Gold Coast (21)

In Côte d’Or, where the President of the Departmental Council François Sauvadet has always opposed 80 km / h, the return to 90 km / h would no longer take place on 90% of the roads as planned but only on "a thousand kilometers out of 5,670 ", indicates France Bleu following the opinion of the safety commission which must validate the files during the first quarter of 2020.

Hollow (23)

The president of the departmental council, Valerie Simonet (LR), tells France Bleu Creuse that she wants to return to 90 km / h on the major axes of the department, or about 10% of the roads.

Dordogne (24)

The president of the departmental council, Germinal Peiro (PS), says he is in favor of a return to 90 km / h on certain sections. "The elected ignores national recommendations" and considers a return to 90 km / h on axes "well calibrated and well traced" by the summer, specifies France 3 Nouvelle Aquitaine by evoking the Perigueux-Sarlat and Mussidan sections -Bergerac, as well as the roads of Nontron and Brive.

Herault (34)

According to Le Midi Libre, the Herault department could increase the maximum authorized speed from 80 to 90 km / h on approximately 490 km of roads from June 2020.

Indre (36)

According to a confidential document obtained by our colleagues from La Nouvelle Republique, the department of Indre plans to return to 90 km / h on six main axes from the end of March, which would concern 220 km of roads. Serge Descout, president of the departmental council, had always indicated that he wanted a return to 90 km / h on certain major axes.

Indre-et-Loire (37)

From spring 2020, "429 km of departmental roads could return to 90 km / h on a network of 3,651 km", announces the president of the departmental council Jean-Gerard Paumier (LR) in La Nouvelle Republique.

Jura (39)

The Jura department chaired by Clement Pernot must go back to 90 km / h on "400 km of departmental roads" (out of a total of 3500), indicates France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comte, specifying that these are the axes "the larger areas where development work has been carried out ".  

Loiret (45)

According to France 3 Center Val de Loire, the department of Loiret is preparing to restore 90 km / h on "nearly 473 km" of roads more than 6.50 m wide outside urban areas, while creating "specific areas to 70 km / h "when there is" a particular safety issue ".

Maine-et-Loire (49)

The departmental council wishes to re-establish the limitation to 90 km / h on "at least 410 km of the 4 860 km of departmental roads", indicates France 3 Pays de la Loire, but "it will be necessary to harmonize the speeds with the neighboring departments", specifies the department chairman Christian Gillet (Miscellaneous right).

Haute-Marne (52)

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Orne (61)

In the department of deputy (LR) Jerôme Nury, also, we should be able to drive again at 90 on "2400 km of road as soon as possible", indicated the president of the departmental council Christophe de Balorre (LR) cited by Ouest France.

Bas-Rhin (67)

According to Les Latest Nouvelle d’Alsace, the department of Bas-Rhin could return to 90 km / h on "six road sections" representing a total of 54 km (out of the 2,500 km increased from 90 to 80 km / h in 2018).

Road safety - Back to 90 km-h: is your department concerned? -

These are the RD2 portions between the A35 and the German border (Gambsheim sector), RD4 between the A35 and the German border (Roppenheim sector), RD263 between the RD264 (Surbourg) and RD34 (Wissembourg) intersections, RD1062 between the southern and northern crossroads of RD662 (northern sector of Niederbronn-les-Bains), RD1404 between the crossroads of RD1004 and A4 (Saverne sector) and RD1420 between the A352 and the RD2420 crossroads (to the north by Schirmeck).

Haute-Saone (70)

The department "leaves itself time to reflect on the possibility of raising the speed to 90 km / h on the secondary roads which it manages", indicates the local daily Les Affiches de la Haute-Saône. The decision could be taken by "the end of June 2020" by the president of the departmental council, Yves Krattinger (various left).

Sarthe (72)

In the country of and, the president of the departmental council Dominique Le Mèner (LR) says he is "in favor of returning to 90 km on certain portions, in particular the old national roads", indicates Ouest France by specifying that this change of speed could take place "before summer 2020".

Seine-et-Marne (77)

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Deux-Sèvres (79)

For the president of the department Gilbert Favreau quoted by Le Monde, the return to 90 is "a common sense measure which has been very studied. Our choice fell on busy roads, with traffic. The return to 90 km / h will provide comfort in the management of users’ time, without compromising their safety ".

Essonne (91)

While the president of the departmental council (LR) was planning to return to 90 over 700 km of roads, the conditions imposed by the government seriously complicate the task … Because according to François Durovray quoted by Le Parisien, "portions of roads of 10 km without intersection and without obstacle, there is hardly any "in Essonne…

Maintaining 80 km / h

Alpes-Maritimes (06)

The president of the departmental council, Charles-Ange Ginesy (LR), denounces in Nice-Matin "drastic conditions of implementation" which prevent it from returning to 90 km / h, "even though the passage from 90 to 80 km / h in our department did not have a significant effect on accidents ".

Doubs (25)

According to L’Est Republicain, the president (LR) of the department, Christine Bouquin, "will not go back on the speed limit to 80 km / h".

Gironde (33)

According to France 3 Nouvelle Aquitaine, the president of the departmental council Jean-Luc Gleyze (PS) wants to "strictly respect the specifications requested by the State", which almost amounts to eliminating the hypothesis of a return to 90 km / h.

Ille-et-Vilaine (35)

"We must keep a national standard", estimates the president of the departmental council Jean-Luc Chenut (PS) quoted by Ouest France: "we need homogeneity. If such a department is at 80 km / h when the neighbor is at 90 km / h, it will quickly become unmanageable. This will also create legal uncertainty with risks for accidents ".

Isere (38)

On the official website of the department, the president of the departmental council "regrets that the government (…) leaves us only the choice of the exemption which engages our responsibility".

"If we weren’t talking about accidents and human lives, we could compare the government’s promise to a farce" continues Jean-Pierre Barbier (LR) by estimating that "the constant change of maximum authorized speed could create a dangerous confusion for the driver".

"The imposed criteria are so restrictive that no section of departmental roads could go back to 90 km / h in Isère, so we will stay at 80 km / h", confirms the elected in Le Dauphine Libere, stressing that "this circular is a concentrate of bad faith, a coup from the government which has never given the departments the opportunity to return to the previous pattern "…

Landes (40)

"If all the recommendations of the National Road Safety Council were to be implemented, there would be no section that would meet, without major works, the conditions for increasing speed," said the president of the department during of his wishes.

"I will soon seize the prefect in order to bring together the departmental road safety commission to gather its opinion", continued Xavier Fortinon (PS) and "a decision must be taken before the end of the first quarter of 2020", specifies Landes Info.

Loire-Atlantique (44)

The president of the departmental council, Philippe Grosvallet (PS), declared himself "totally opposed to a step back", assures France 3 Pays de la Loire.

Mayenne (53)

"To prohibit the circulation of agricultural machinery on the axes returned to 90 km / h would be nonsense", estimates the president of the departmental council Olivier Richefou (UDI) quoted by France 3 Pays de la Loire.

Vendee (85)

"No departmental axis meets the criteria, if only by the circulation of agricultural machinery", explains to France 3 Pays de la Loire the president of the department Yves Auvinet (LR) who will therefore stick to strict compliance with the 80.

Territory of Belfort (90)

The president of the smallest department in France, Florian Bouquet (LR), was in favor of returning to 90 km / h. Unfortunately, "the criteria for going back are too restrictive: it would take sections of at least 10 km long and I don’t have any, shoulders 4.5 m high and I don’t have any. not ", he specifies at the microphone of Europe 1.

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