A portion of 287 km of roads in Dordogne, or less than 6% of the road network of this rural department, will pass again at a maximum speed of 90 km / h at the end of the first quarter of 2021.
This partial return to 90 km / h, which had been the subject of a request from the Council of the department, received the approval of the departmental road safety commission on December 15, indicate this Tuesday the community and the prefecture in press releases.
The measure covers ten sections representing 287 km out of a total of approximately 4,900 km of roads, East-West or North-South “structuring axes”, the department says, such as the road which links Périgueux to Angoulême , in the neighboring Charente, which itself has speeded up to 90 km / h on part of its network, just like the neighboring Corrèze.
A return to 90km / h for a third of the departments
The Dordogne national road network will remain limited to 80 km / h, said the prefecture, which had issued an unfavorable opinion on the return to 90 km / h, citing “a sharp drop in mortality of 42%” on roads confirmed in 2020, although a containment effect was to be taken into account.
The department had for its part invoked in particular a safety reason for a return to 90 km / h, for the overtaking of trucks traveling at 80 km / h on certain major axes, and the specificities of a large rural department, the third in metropolis by area.
The department must now take the decrees and accompanying measures, such as road signs, and the return to 90 km / h should be effective “towards the end of March”, it was specified to the community.
After the lowering in July 2018 from 90 to 80 km / h of the maximum speed on two-way secondary roads without a central separator, more than a third of the departments have chosen to return to 90 km / h, since the Law of he mobility orientation offered them this possibility in December 2019. But like the Dordogne, a very large majority did so on a small portion of their roads.
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