The Departmental Council of Côte-d’Or has voted a budget of 10,000 euros to participate in the study on the requalification of a roundabout on the Lino, the north-west link of the Dijon metropolis. This is where the traffic jams are concentrated during rush hour.
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The north-west inter-municipal link, the Lino, makes life easier for many motorists to cross the metropolis of Dijon by extending the bypass between the Toison-d’Or and the A38 motorway. Commissioned in 2014, it is a victim of its success and its design. It is an expressway but with narrowings and two roundabouts.
As the electoral deadlines approach, the UDI president of the Côte-d’Or departmental council has just put his hand in his pocket to finance up to 10,000 euros a study to remove one of the roundabouts, around which are concentrated the caps. What to revive the quarrels between metropolis and department. “At the time, there was pressure from environmentalists, there was an alliance between François Rebsamen and environmentalists. Today, we are in a different kind of relationship, explains François Sauvadet. And then there is a realization that we cannot continue like this, which we knew from the start. Consistently, I want a 2 x 2 lane Lino on the entire route, which alone will make it possible to fluidify. “
In a month, the prefect of Côte-d’Or should present solutions to resolve traffic jams, with the three million euros of the State-Region plan. In the department as in the metropolis, the 2 x 2 lanes is not unanimous. “I don’t think it’s technically possible, notes the departmental councilor and vice-president PS of the metropolis Nathalie Koenders. And then three million euros is a significant sum, but there are technical problems. Perhaps a second roundabout upstream would allow you to slow down. Afterwards, I trust the engineers of the communities and the State to find the best solutions and unclog this roundabout. “
In red, the Lino put into service in 2014. In gray, the rest of the ring road, entirely with 2 x 2 lanes.
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A new roundabout as a solution?
The mayor of Ahuy, town where the roundabout of all evil is located, is for a quick solution. Neutralization of the roundabout, maintenance of the narrowing of the lane and creation of an entrance and an exit. Two projects have his favors. “What we recommend is the creation of an interchange on the Ahuy side which is the counterpart of what already exists on the Fontaine side. Since on the Fontaine side, you have a roundabout to access the Lino. The big drawback, that creates traffic jams today, is that people have to go around the roundabout “, explains the elected LREM, also vice-president of the metropolis.
“If we create an interchange on the Ahuy side, cars will no longer go around this roundabout and there will no longer be any traffic jams”, he adds. No more plugs without 2 x 2 ways, for a cheaper and more consensual solution. Users are just asking to try as quickly as possible.
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The Lino took a long time to emerge from the ground. The project was mentioned in the 1960s, preparatory studies were carried out in the 1970s, but various appeals stopped the reflection. The idea returned to the carpet in the 2000s, a public inquiry was held in 2004 in the six municipalities concerned by the project: Dijon, Ahuy, Fontaine-les-Dijon, Daix, Talant and Plombières-lès-Dijon. After a favorable opinion from the commission of inquiry, the Prime Minister in 2006 signed a decree declaring the works to be of public utility.
North of Dijon in the 1960s. The area is then very little urbanized.
Images taken between 2000 and 2005. The Toison-d’Or shopping center and its huge parking lot is there. The business area between Dijon and Fontaine also. We can clearly see the ring road which ends in a cul-de-sac north of the shopping center.
Images taken between 2006 and 2010. The works of Lino stand out in the landscape. The asphalt has not yet been laid but the Ahuy roundabout, where the traffic jams are concentrated today, has already been drawn.
Images taken in 2017. Since February 10, 2014, motorists have been able to use the 6.5-kilometer-long infrastructure which required 164 million euros of work.
Feedback on the work of Lino
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