It was one of his first decisions after his election as head of the Var departmental council, in the fall of 2022. Jean-Louis Masson intended to reconsider the 80 km/h limit uniformly imposed by the State, in July 2018, on the secondary road network.
Ten sections of Var roads – or 175km of bitumen – then returned to the old threshold of 90km/h from September 18, 2023.
Studies were to be launched to identify other roads likely to suffer the same fate, the President of the Department then specified.
It's done. “I inform you that the transition to 90 km/h will enter its second phase“declared Jean-Louis Masson during the general assembly of the Association of Rural Mayors of Var (AMR-83), meeting this Saturday in the commune of Mayons.
An advisory opinion at the end of December
“The prefect is committed to quickly convening the departmental road safety commission at the end of which we will carry out the second – and undoubtedly last – phase of the transition to 90 km/h”he assured without further details on the axes concerned.
Information immediately confirmed by the state representative in Var. “We will have this meeting before the end of December, as we agreed”indicated Philippe Mahé.
“I will be unfavorable to [cette] proposal to move to 90 km/h on a number of routes”has already announced the prefect whose opinion is only “advisory”.
The possibility of returning to the 80 km/ha limit was introduced by the mobility orientation law (LOM) of December 26, 2019. The text specifies that “this decision takes the form of a reasoned decree (…) on the basis of an accident study relating to each of the road sections concerned”.
