A law provides for the transfer of roads managed by the State to the regions. Ile-de-France Mobilités, which organizes public transport in the region, wishes to recover it as well as the management of the ring road, the competence of the Paris town hall.
The subject seems quite technical but the consequences for users could be very concrete. The board of directors of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) adopted a report on Tuesday asking its president Valérie Pécresse to demand from the State the transfer of non-licensed highways and national roads in the region, as well as the Parisian ring road.
“The transfer of road jurisdiction from the State in Ile-de-France to Ile-de-France Mobilités (and not to the region, editor’s note) nevertheless appears natural in view of the competences of the authority organizing mobility, in particular its ability to organize intermodality on a regional scale and to promote synergies between the road network and public transport and shared mobility “, is it stated in the report.
Why was such a report adopted? Because the parliament is currently examining the 3DS bill (differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification) which envisages the transfer of the national road network to the regions.
The authority wants to recover the Paris ring road
According to IDFM, the departments concerned could recover some national roads.
More controversial, the ring road, which belongs to the City of Paris, according to IDFM has vocation to join the network that wants to manage the regional institution. Valérie Pécresse (Libres!), Who chairs the Ile-de-France region (and therefore IDFM), recently proposed to organize a referendum on the future of the ring road, which the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS) wants to transform in one “urban boulevard” with less motorway characteristics.
To do this, IDFM demands from the State “the guarantee of having sufficient resources” and intends in particular to create express bus lines running on highways, develop reserved lanes and coordinate real-time information systems with the public transport network.
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