Since the start of the week, Villeneuvois residents have been able to see the new face of Boulevard Georges-Leygues, now two lanes. From this Thursday, November 14, it reopens to traffic, without restrictions.
On the central reservation, the street lamps were being installed since Tuesday, November 12, while waiting for the vegetation to take its place. Vegetation partly from the side alleys since the trees, lagerstroemias, which had been planted for around forty years, were dug up this Tuesday by workers from the Villeneuve company Delfaut. Six of them will therefore be relocated in the middle of the boulevard. The others will go to foster care to be kept alive, while waiting to find their new place in the bastide.
All the trees will be kept alive, either by being replanted on the central reservation of the new boulevard, or by leaving them in a greenhouse.
Annabel Perrin
The fall of the wall
At the same time, the side alleys will be permanently closed to vehicles, since the work to create the pedestrian and soft mobility space there will begin, and will last until the beginning of December. The first stage will be led by Orange and Enedis, on fiber. The construction site will take a break, during the “Enchanted Bastide” and its Christmas market, and will not resume until the beginning of January, with the burying of the wet networks, in particular that of the rainwater evacuation.
Annabel Perrin
The first jackhammer blows were given this Wednesday morning.
Another monument, present in the Villeneuvois landscape since 1997, lived its last moments on Wednesday, November 13, after having experienced its very last official ceremony on Monday, November 11. This is the wall on which the names of the Villeneuvois who died for their country are inscribed, located behind the war memorial. After carefully unbolting the various plates attached, the workers cut it into several pieces in less than 48 hours. It will be replaced by less imposing steles, on which the unbolted plaques will find their place. This new “garden of memories” will allow you to rediscover the original perspective of the Georges-Leygues avenues, with their aligned plane trees.
