Upset against the new agreement being negotiated with Health Insurance on the transport of seated patients, the transporters had announced numerous blockages.
In Lyon, Marseille, in Isère… Difficult morning on the roads this Monday, December 2, when taxis once again called for blockages. They are protesting against the agreement currently being negotiated with Health Insurance for the transport of seated patients, which could be signed in December. According to Abdel Grine, president of the Federation of Independent Taxis of the Rhône (FTI69), two points arouse the anger of taxis: pricing “very significantly downward review” and an obligation to do “shared taxi”.
Around Lyon, the Rhône prefecture recommended this weekend that motorists favor public transport or postpone their trip. Several taxi unions in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes had announced to state services a mobilization “aiming to block several entry and exit routes from the Lyon metropolitan area”explained the prefecture in a press release, which anticipates «fortes perturbations».
No blockage of hospitals will be tolerated
This Monday morning, the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region announces “blocking points” to the north of the metropolis, on the M6 at the Valvert interchange and at the interchange between the A42, the A46 and the Eastern ring road, but also to the south on the A7, at the interchange with the A450 then at the interchange with the southern urban boulevard. A “snail operation” was also underway in the Villefranche-sur-Saône agglomeration.
A few kilometers away, in Isère, taxis blocked the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier tollgate this Monday morning, on the motorway linking Lyon to the Alps. Only one lane of traffic was open at the toll exit at 8 a.m., and one exit was completely blocked, the Isère prefecture indicated on social networks.
In Marseille, “all entrances to L2 are closed in the direction A50 towards A7”warned the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture this Monday morning. Several axes were completely saturated, reports Provence . The authorities had also warned of blockages planned for the day.
In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the regional prefecture had called “with the greatest vigilance and calm when approaching all blocking points” and assured that the police will be mobilized “for the safety of all”. She also said she had “indicated to the organizers of this movement that no lasting blockage will be accepted” and that“no action to filter access to hospitals [comme certains l’avaient évoqué, NDLR] will not be tolerated by state services..
