“Some additional improvements” must be found in environmental aspects, but the works on the Toulouse-Castres motorway “will begin,” the delegate minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, said on Tuesday. “Therefore, it is no longer a project but a beginning of realization.”
Contested by environmentalists, the A69 motorway “has been the subject of contractual commitments”, all appeals have been dismissed and it has the support of the majority of local elected officials, recalled the minister during the question-and-answer session with the Government in the Assembly National.
“Does that mean that things can’t get better, that we can’t discuss it? I don’t think so, especially in environmental aspects” where we can probably “do better”, added the Minister.
Clément Beaune said he would meet with Atosca’s distributor soon to “see if there are any further improvements” to be made to the project.
“We will review a number of projects”
The minister was more indecisive on April 24, the day after a large demonstration against the construction of this motorway in the Tarn. He later told Franceinfo that the A69 would be included in the major review of motorway projects initiated by the government.
This review, whose results are expected this summer, “will refer to a certain number of projects that are not committed,” he said on Tuesday.
The highway projects will be analyzed “according to several criteria, openness, assumed commitments and environmental impact,” he explained to the deputies.
“We will review a number of projects, we will make brave and bold decisions in the coming months,” he said. “Without a doubt, some projects will be put on hold or put on hold,” warned Clément Beaune.
Source: BFM TV
