Demonstrators hostile to the Rouen motorway bypass project blocked the A13 motorway on Sunday afternoon, the Eure prefecture announced.
“Demonstration in progress on the A13 near Louviers (PK 100). Traffic is also blocked on the departmental D6015 between Pont de l’Arche and Le Vaudreuil. Avoid the sector, ”said the prefecture on Twitter. On the same social network, the Uprisings of the earth claimed this action. “After crossing the Bord forest then the national, the demonstrators equipped themselves with sticks and took over the motorway to challenge the project for the future A133 A134”.
Forty kilometers of highway
Bison Futé indicated around 5 p.m. traffic jams of 4 km in the Cherbourg-Paris direction and 3 km in the other direction on the A13. On Saturday, a thousand people gathered in the agglomeration of Rouen in a festive atmosphere to denounce the planned motorway bypass of the Norman city from the east. The event, which should last the entire May 8 bridge, is organized in Léry-Poses (Eure) by the Uprisings of the earth, whose government is considering dissolving, and by the local associations Non à l’autoroute (NALA) , Alternatiba-Rouen and Greenhouse effect yourself.
This 41.5 km toll motorway project should link the A28 to the north to the A13 to the south, bypassing the Rouen conurbation to the east. “Rouen remains the only French metropolis of this size without road bypass”, estimated the prefecture on its website in 2021. “This results in a significant flow of heavy goods vehicles in the urban area”, specified a letter from the prefect sent in January 2021 to the communities. The cost of the project is estimated at nearly one billion euros excluding taxes, according to Guillaume Grima, one of the leaders of Effect of Greenhouse yourself and former elected Greens in Rouen.