Ségolène Royal in favor of motorway sections at 90km / h – Le Figaro

The Mayor of Valencia calls for a decrease in speed from 110 to 90 km / h on a stretch of motorway that runs through his city, and to fight against pollution. The Minister of Ecology says that it will support this measure.

Limit speed on sections of expressway, to better fight against the pollution. This is the idea of ​​the Mayor of Valence (Drôme), Nicolas Darangon (The Republicans), who seized the Minister of Ecology and asked him to limit the speed at 90km / h on the motorway A7 portion that crosses its City on Sunday reports Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France.

The Minister of Ecology Segolene Royal says she will support this measure. “This initiative shows that local elected officials are aware of the issues and ready to assume their responsibilities in the fight against pollution”, says the minister, quoted by the daily.

“The center of Valencia is located less than 300m from the A7 which is the busiest highway in Europe with 70,000 vehicles per day on average, “said the mayor in an interview with Paris . “Decrease the speed of vehicles would reduce this pollution because the more the average speed is low, the less emissions,” he added.

“It is urgent to initiate measures significant for the health of people affected by these urban portions of highways, “says the mayor.

Ségolène Royal has planned to announce the return of control measures against air pollution. A parliamentary report amounted to nearly 100 billion euros per year the cost of this pollution.

The measure is based on the decision taken by the Government in January 2014 to increase the speed on the Paris ring of 80 to 70 km / h. As the mayor of Valencia, the UDI mayor of Chamonix (Haute-Savoie) also calls him a drop of 90 to 80 km / h in a stretch of road at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Minister Ecology said this week he had to give to the mayors of major cities more leeway to make decisions as alternating traffic ban or urban sites to traffic in case of pollution peaks.

But the automobile associations will annoy of yet another restriction which is not justified by the need for road safety but by an ecological issue. “Why not tomorrow 30 km / h on motorways,” and indignant Christine Bayard, Secretary General of the League for the Defence of drivers questioned in Le Parisien .