The question at 350,000 euros. We are not when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? but in the Ile-de-France politician grub. This is indeed the cost of the online consultation on the future of a ring road, conducted in November by the Region, indicated its president Valérie Pécresse. In a letter dated January 5, candidate LR in the presidential election indicates that the budget for this consultation is made up of “operating credits for the” digital transformation “”, for the online platform, and those of the ” institutional communication” with regard to “user information”.
According to the region, nearly 80,000 people took part in this consultation and 90% were opposed to the “removal of a traffic lane for all” on the ring road, the subject of a political battle with the mayor of Paris who to management. The town hall, led by the socialist Anne Hidalgo, also a presidential candidate, plans to reserve this route for carpooling, public transport and even electric vehicles after the 2024 Olympic Games, during which it will be reserved for participants. The deputy (EELV) to the transport of the town hall David Belliard therefore considers that this route will not be “removed” but “transformed”, and had accused Valérie Pécresse of “lie”.
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The analysis of some 46,000 explanations of vote is in progress, indicates Pécresse, even if “outline lines appear with force”, in particular on “the risk of increased congestion and pollution” and “the practical difficulties” linked to the town hall project. The President of the Region, who had promised a referendum on the subject during her re-election campaign in early 2021, also demanded via the regional transport union that she chairs, Ile-de-France Mobilités, to recover the management of the boulevard peripheral.
Used every day by a million vehicles, the latter “has less than 20% of Parisian users and 40% of journeys are from suburb to suburb”, she underlines in her letter, in response to the regional councilor PS Jean -Marc Germain, husband of Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the socialist and related group, Maxime des Gayets. Contacted by AFP, the latter deplored the “Pécresse management”: “after having spent 130,000 euros to try to block the pedestrianization of the roads on the banks carried by the City of Paris, Valérie Pécresse will therefore have wasted 350,000 euros for an operation of insincere communication without an object of general interest”, he believes.