Red-the-Bol in Pas-de-Jeu (Deux-Sèvres). Residents are fed up with trucks. More than a thousand heavy goods vehicles cross, every day, this big length bourg, ripped by a departmental road. The barrier starts around 5 a.m. and ends after 10 p.m. There have always been a lot of trucks in Pas-de-Jeu-a study by the Departmental Council of Deux-Sèvres estimated at 947 the number of daily passages in 2020-but, since the prices of the fuel have soared, traffic has increased. Transport companies are asking their drivers to go to the shortest and favor the toll -free routes. Located between Loudun and Thouars – or, by widening the map, between the Paris region and the Atlantic facade -, the village is a must in times of crisis. To the chagrin of the residents of this bottleneck little suited to the circulation of 3.5 tonnes and more.
They launched a petition and requested the local press to alert a situation that would go from bad to worse. And it’s not over: in early June, Pas-de-Jeu will find itself on the route of a deviation due to the work planned in a town in the surrounding area, the three-moutiers. “Several hundred additional trucks will go through us every day,” laments Mayor Maryline Gelée, herself an ex-manager of a transport company. The elected official says he is a solution. Claim the construction of a bypass? Too expensive for a village of 370 inhabitants. Install tricolor lights that regulate traffic without reducing it? Not desirable for local ears (nothing worse than a bahut that restarts). Vote a municipal decree prohibiting crossing the hamlet? It would be angry with the prefecture or the department (of which M me frozen is elected), which is not a good idea in a climate of decrease in endowments.
Nuisances are nonetheless multiple, and of all order. There are the horn strokes of the trucks that set up the coast in order to claim priority from those who descend it; The clouds of co 2 which prohibit open the windows in the houses; The ripped mailboxes and the scratched facades. In order to deal with the friction fruits, the town hall had to install flexible traffic signs, in defiance of any regulations. The municipality, on the other hand, has given up rebuilding rainwater looks, which the heavy goods vehicles are biting on the sidewalks: “they should be done again every year. Public money cannot be wasted in this way”, Slices the mayor whose great achievement is to have set up a path allowing schoolchildren to bypass the main axis to go back on foot.
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