Rue Principale in Zoufftgen, on the border with Luxembourg, is widely used, especially by cross-border commuters. Since Thursday, they risk wasting time passing through there, the fault of work on the drinking water network requiring the establishment of alternating traffic regulated by construction fires.
Claire, from Kédange-sur-Canner takes this route to go to work in Dudelange. From 45 minutes normally, it took 1h35 Monday morning. “The problem is that some people cut through the housing estates. Those who stay on the main roads have difficulty getting through,” she notes. Working earlier on Tuesday morning, she passed through Zoufftgen before rush hour and took no longer than usual.
Agnès, lives in the village and says it took 40 minutes to walk 500 meters over the last three days. Tuesday morning, she parked a five-minute walk from her home to try to avoid some of the traffic. “The town hall does nothing, despite our complaints,” she regrets.
Cyrille, another Zoufftgenois, points out other problems: “Middle and high school students going to Thionville were refused classes because their bus arrived late. Now, with Waze, people go through field paths and drive there quickly while that’s where the children go to go safely to school.
If there have been major traffic problems since Thursday, the town hall has taken matters into hand. “The signs indicating the construction site have been placed further upstream of the village, the work zone has been reduced, the routes of the bus lines have been modified to avoid them getting into traffic jams,” quotes Mayor Michel Paquet. The streets and paths used to get around traffic jams, particularly near schools, will be closed to traffic, except for local residents.
Despite everything, a parent from the village regrets that the buses to the Hettange-Grande college only serve one stop in the village. “It’s winter, the youngest are only 12 years old and it’s not normal that they have to leave much earlier to take the bus,” he confides. There will always be unhappy people.
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