Speed ​​at 80 km / h: the Senate does not let go and hears Emmanuel Barbe

To find out the real reasons for the speed limit of 80 km / h on the roads, the committee on laws and the committee for regional planning and sustainable development of the Senate will proceed to the hearing of the interministerial safety delegate. road, Emmanuel Barbe. Explanations.

While the deputies are surprisingly silent on the without real justification – with the notable exception of -, the senators do not let go: after the mobilization and then the publication of one, two other senators step up to ask for "additional explanations" from Edouard Philippe…

• MNC special file : 

In a joint letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Philippe Bas (Manche, Les Republicains) and Herve Maurey (Eure, Union Centriste), respectively chairmen of the law committee and of the regional planning and sustainable development committee in the Senate , ask "for the communication of the results of scientific studies and experiments on which the government relied to decide to lower the maximum speed authorized on two-way roads without a central separator from 90 to 80 km / h, apart from two-lane roads and three-lane roads ".

"An insufficiently substantiated decision"

This decision, announced by the Prime Minister at the end of the meeting of, "was considered insufficiently supported by a large number of elected officials and road users", recall the two presidents: "if we fully share your desire to reduce road insecurity, the number and severity of road accidents, it seems essential to us to take care to take only useful measures, having "a significant impact" in your own words, and to show concerted action and pedagogy ", they write to Edouard Philippe, the man with the" flight "who had also been flashed at .

• MNC of December 13, 2017 :

Philippe Bas and Herve Maurey therefore deemed it necessary "to enlighten the national representation" on this decision applicable from July 1, 2018 – which must be the subject of a – by hearing the interministerial delegate for road safety, on January 24.

• MNC of January 12, 2018 :

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Eric MICHEL

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