On a sign, we can see written “ 50 years of circuit, 50 years of noise, that’s enough “. A little further on, glued to a black tombstone, there is this message: 1972-2022, Circuit Dijon-Prenois “. At the call of the association of Sentinels of the Dijon Mountain, a dozen people gathered in front of the town hall of Dijon. This Saturday, May 21, they want to draw the attention of the public and the city to the fact that this circuit is no longer adapted to its time. It is, according to the collective, polluting.
Support soft mobility but also the circuit
« Our first demand is that Dijon and the elected members of the municipal council decide to no longer associate the name of the city with the Dijon-Prenois appellation. There is a paradox: Dijon does not stop promoting soft mobility, at the same time as it continues to support this polluting activity. We see that Divia is currently calling to abandon her vehicle for a week, to have free transport. What we are also calling for is an end to public funding for all speed circuits “, proclaims Jean-Noël Cabassy.
For three years, this member of the Sentinelles de la Montagne Dijonnaise has been highlighting the problems caused by the circuit. ” The 165 hectares occupied by this circuit are all lost plots of forest “, he laments. A little further in the rally, Martine, a resident of Prenois, said suffer the nuisances of the circuit on a daily basis. She’s had enough: There is especially the noise of the traffic of cars at full speed, in addition to the fact that I live near a departmental ».
– Toky Nirhy-Lanto
A legal action for the closure of the site
An anger such as the association has seize administrative justice. « We have appealed to the administrative court of Dijon, to have the approval of the circuit canceled. It received the approval of the prefect in 2021, for a period of 4 years. If successful, this can lead to the immediate shutdown of the circuit adds Jean-Noël Cabassy. The collective is not in its first. He had previously filed against an extension of the site estimated at “ 40 hectares », Completes Martine.
Contacted by France Bleu Bourgogne, the presidency of the circuit Dijon-Prenois noted ” have nothing to say about this action.
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