Some twenty departments, metropolises and regions are entrusted by the State with the administration and operation of roads and national highways in their territories, as provided for in the decentralization law “3DS”, according to a decision published this Sunday in the Official Gazette. .
This decision on Wednesday allows the transfer of national highways, motorways and sections of roads in the public domain to about fifteen departments, including Bouches-du-Rhône, Gers or Moselle, and to the metropolises of Lyon, Toulouse and Dijon.
In application of the 3DS law (differentiation, decentralization, decentralization and simplification), approved in February 2022, the communities were invited to take the non-concession highways and the national highways that cross their territory, against compensation from the State.
Close negotiations have taken place in recent months, and some of them, such as Doubs and Saône-et-Loire, have given up on them.
Free part of the A7
Another novelty, these same roads or sections of roads not granted could also be made available to the regions, which until then did not have their own road network, “in an experimental manner and for a period of eight years”.
Some of them have therefore taken the plunge, such as the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the Grand Est and Occitania.
The law establishes that “the transfer of motorways, roads and sections of lanes does not affect the condition of a fast track, main road, motorway or road of European importance”.
The free part of the A7 that reaches Marseille, occupied by the Bouches-du-Rhône department, should remain a motorway.
This is the third phase of the withdrawal of the State from the road network after the massive transfers to the departments in 1972 and 2006. Before the 3DS law, Alsace and the Strasbourg metropolis had already regained the management of their highways and roads in 2021.
Source: BFM TV
