As part of the creation of the Lyon Urban Community, responsibility for roads was given to Courly, rather than to town halls.
Except that on December 18, 1972, during the Courly session which recorded the transfer of municipal roads, the inventory had not been carried out carefully. A major axis had thus been forgotten: the Cours Charlemagne in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, between Perrache and the southern tip of the Presqu'île.
It appears that this oversight was in turn… forgotten. Since the elected environmentalists realized by chance that the Métropole de Lyon was not required to manage the Cours Charlemagne.
Indeed, it is within the framework of the development of the northern island of the Lyon Confluence project that the SPL had to regularize the land rights along the course. And the services of the Metropolis could not do it, since the community had failed, 52 years ago, to recover management of the axis.
This Thursday, the Lyon municipal council will be the opportunity to activate the regularization of the situation. Grégory Doucet will ask elected officials to act on what should have been done in 1972, namely to act on the transfer of ownership by amicable agreement without payment of compensation.
Note that this episode will make it possible to redo a new inventory of all the roads in Lyon, in order to verify whether they were indeed transferred to the urban community in 1972. If this is not the case, a deliberation of the same type will be then taken again.
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