the construction sites of future stations in Bondy are causing concern

It is a construction site that is causing concern among local residents and environmental associations. In sight: the Bondy and Pont de Bondy stations of the future line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express. The cause is the pollution caused by the work, but also the noise pollution generated. Faced with all these questions, the Société des Grands Projets (SGP), in charge of the site, wants to be reassuring.

Noise pollution near a nursery, pollution due to the passage of trucks… If the project to create line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express, with two new stations in Bondy, garners the support of elected officials from the towns concerned, the project however, raises many questions. “We have been waiting for this project for a very long time. We all want the Grand Paris Express lines to be put into service as quickly as possible, because for a department like Seine-Saint-Denis, this radically changes the situation in terms of public transport service”, underlines Philippe Dallier, mayor (LR) of Pavillons-sous-Bois.

However, this project raises some questions. Among certain elected officials, but also among local residents and environmental associations, it is the “work phase” which arouses concern and a certain reserve. “We have a supply of rubble which will be created by the construction of the Bondy station itself. This will emit dust and therefore pollute. Apart from near this future station, we have a nursery, which is therefore located 10-15 meters away. This is unacceptable”asserts Francis Redon, president of Environnement 93.

For almost 4 years, legal appeals have been filed. The objective: to force the Société des Grands Projets (SGP), which is carrying out the construction of the future Bondy and Pont de Bondy stations, to modify some of these work plans.

In July 2023, justice also required that SGP refine the impact study linked to the work. In focus: the question of construction site debris and their disposal. The company had once considered transporting them via the N186. But this was rejected.

The new solution is not unanimous either. This suggests transporting the rubble through certain suburban areas of Bondy, but also Villemomble and Pavillons-sous-Bois.

More than a hundred trucks are expected to pass through these neighborhoods daily. A route that the mayor (LR) of Pavillons-sous-Bois, Philippe Dallier, does not understand. He deplores not having been consulted upstream by the Société des Grands Projets. “I find it difficult to understand and accept that a public inquiry could have been launched into the way in which waste will be excavated from Bondy station then evacuated, without informing me, while we are concerned by the evacuation route for this debris. And so, if I had not been informed by an association, the city would not even have been able to express itself during the public inquiry… I really have a hard time understanding this. And I didn't even imagine that this could be possible. »

If the fact of not having been warned in advance raises questions, it is also the route itself planned for the evacuation of the rubble which worries the elected official. It provides for trucks to pass in front of schools, but also a busy stadium. “The stadium is located in a street where there are already a lot of traffic problems with attendance being very high at certain times, we then pass in front of a college and a crossroads where there is a nursery school and primary… We are promised a hundred trucks per day which would pass through these streets which are residential streets in Pavillons-sous-Bois as in Villemomble upstream”underlines Philippe Dallier.

At the beginning of November, the Pavillons-sous-Bois municipal council deliberated to issue a negative opinion and opposition to this route.

The mayor (DVD) of Bondy, Stephen Hervé, also understands the concerns raised by this construction site, and hopes that the nuisance caused will be « framed as much as possible. We will have to ensure that their impact on daily life during the few years that this lasts is minimal. But we won't stop having a little nuisance. I do not deny the fact that there may be nuisances in the context of these projects. But our role is to ensure, at each stage, that we have thought of all the measures to reduce the impacts and to ensure that it is as acceptable as possible. »

For the mayor of Bondy, nothing is yet final and modifications can still be taken into account. “The public inquiry is currently being analyzed by the public investigator. An opinion will then be given and it is from there that things will really be decided on transport and truck movements. We can still limit truck traffic in areas that would pose the most nuisance to our fellow citizens, avoid residential areas, stay on the main roads and try to move towards the motorways or the Ourcq canal if there are has kidnappings by river. These are things that are not completely settled. We all have in mind to limit nuisances and the idea is actually to look at how, with the constraints that exist on certain roads, on certain axes, we can best organize the movement of these trucks, their daily number, so as to limit nuisance. »

In order to explain the project, a public meeting must be held Thursday evening, around 7 p.m. at Bondy town hall. This is to allow residents “to begin to understand the future station areas, with the design of their stations and also to see the timetable for these projects. This is an important meeting for the acceptance of all of our fellow citizens to this great project”specifies Stephen Hervé, mayor (DVD) of Bondy.

A meeting which should, in addition to presenting the project to residents, the two stations of Bondy and Pont de Bondy, also allow the SGP to explain the work linked to the creation of the two future stations of line 15 East of Grand Paris Express and reassure the population. The objective is also according to SGP to « present the support put in place by the SGP and the works companies to limit as much as possible the inconvenience linked to the construction sites. »