Every day, nearly 2,500 trucks cross the municipalities along the RN 83 in the Jura and the Doubs, much to the dismay of local residents. A study has been launched by the State and two parliamentarians are trying to get things moving.
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Lithuanian, Polish, Luxembourgish, Romanian. Every day, the inhabitants of Samson, a village between Besançon and Lons-le-Saunier, count not the sheep, but the trucks. Some heavy goods vehicles prefer to take the national road to avoid paying the A39 then A36 motorway, and passing through Dole (Jura). For years, municipalities have been looking for a solution to regain calm and security.
“We installed triple glazing, but we still hear the road, and then there is the pollution. It's black everywhere. On window sills, even indoors, it can fit in” explains this local resident to the microphone of our journalist Emmanuel Rivallain.
It's hellish, we have to live with it. It's up to them to leave the trucks in transit!
Catherine Curie, inhabitant of the Samson commune
Rémy Paul, mayor of the village, makes the same observation. Insecurity, pollution…
All the sidewalks are blocked because some trucks climb on them to pass each other. We no longer know how to manage. Apart from watching them go by, what can we do? It's a national road, we can't do anything!
Rémy Paul, mayor of Samson, Doubs
This Monday, November 4, begins a series of public meetings in the sector led by the deputy of the presidential majority Laurent Croizier and Jean-François Longeot, president of the Senate of the territorial planning and sustainable development committee.
The two parliamentarians explain having carried out “a work of dialogue and co-construction with local residents’ associations, road transport federations, the motorway company, mayors and state services. The method is paid. A crucial step has been taken with the launch of a study on the traffic of heavy goods vehicles in transit between the municipalities of Beure and Bersaillin”.
This study should attempt to measure the impact and repercussions of the passage of heavy goods vehicles on the RN 83. The results could be known in early 2025. “The idea is to try to convince truckers in transit not to go through this highway. If we managed to have not a consensus, but an awareness of road carriers…“ hopes Senator Longeot.
For 20 euros of toll avoided, the economy is not there according to him, when we count the fuel consumption on a national road, the environmental impact, traffic jams, road risk, loss of time on arrival for example in Besançon.
The mayor of Samson still hopes that one day signs will prohibit the transit of trucks between Bersaillin and Beure at the entrance to Besançon and that checks will be carried out. A scenario which is obviously still far from being acted upon at the level of the Doubs prefecture.
- November 4 at 8:00 p.m. in Quingey at the community hall (Place d’Armes)
- November 8 at 10:00 a.m. in Rennes-sur-Loue at the community hall (village square)
- November 15 at 8:00 p.m. in Paroy at the community hall (church square)
- November 18 at 8:00 p.m. in Chenecey-Buillon at the community hall (rue de l'Eglise)
- November 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Samson at the community hall (3 rue du Bas)
- November 29 at 8:00 p.m. in Larnod at the community hall (esplanade Marthe Dagot)
