This monthly barometer of the ring road will measure and make public measurements on noise, air pollution, speed and traffic jams. It was wanted by the Île-de-France region.
Measure noise, air pollution, speed and even traffic jams. It is the wish of the Île-de-France region which announced its decision to entrust the Institut Paris Région with the establishment, in conjunction with Bruiparif and Airparif, of a monthly barometer of the ring road which will measure and make public this data.
In a press release published this Monday, September 30, the president of the Île-de-France region also returned to the decision of the Paris town hall to limit the speed to 50km/h on the ring road from this month of October.
“This decision on a regional infrastructure is socially unjust and ecologically ineffective: it penalizes workers with staggered shifts who today can still drive at 70 km/h and has too limited an effect on noise reduction,” assures the region.
Paris town hall cannot make decisions “without an impact study”
She recalls that the ring road is an infrastructure used by “80% of non-Parisians, and 40% of whose journeys are from suburb to suburb”.
In addition to the lowering of the speed on the ring road from this Tuesday, October 1, there is added “in January the desire of the city of Paris to remove a lane for general traffic to reserve it for carpooling”.
“It is no longer admissible for the city of Paris to make such important decisions for the lives of Ile-de-France residents without ever any impact study,” we can read in the press release.
The region wants the installation of new coatings
Thus, the region wants with this monthly barometer of the ring road to allow “every Ile-de-France resident” to have “completely transparent data allowing them to evaluate the impact of the decisions of the city of Paris”.
For its part, the Paris town hall indicates that it has made this decision to lower the speed “at the end of a long consultation carried out, for several years, with the State and other communities. The mayor of Paris has also submitted to the minister all the results of this work”, indicated the city of Paris in a press release consulted by BFMTV.com.
Valérie Pécresse once again calls on the city of Paris “to grasp the outstretched hand of the region
Île-de-France, which proposes to finance equally with it, the installation of new sound-proofing coatings which will reduce noise by five, for the benefit of residents of the ring road who suffer from noise pollution.
In the meantime, the measure will begin to apply from this Tuesday. The inner ring road will be the first concerned, more precisely the axis between the Porte des Lilas and the Porte d’Orléans.
Nicolas Dumas with Alicia Foricher
