On the departmental roads of Puy-de-Dôme, the maximum authorized speed rose again this Monday August 1 to 90 km / h, against 80 km / h since 2018. The Ardèche should soon follow.
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Criss-crossing the departmental roads of the Ardèche at a speed limit of 80 km/h is soon nothing more than a memory. “The 80km / h have not changed anything on our roads“, says this Monday August 1 on franceinfo Olivier Amrane, president Les Républicains of the departmental council of Ardèche, where the maximum speed of circulation on the roads will drop to 90 km / h in September.
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According to the elected official, the lowering of the maximum traffic speed to 80 km / h “has not changed the behavior” of motorists. On the contrary, “we had a peak [d’accidentalité et de mortalité] in 2019, when the roads went to 80 km/h“, he assures.
Olivier Amrane therefore wishes “let rural areas breathe” by restoring the maximum speed to 90 km/h, except on “172 sections at 70 km/h which remain protected“because they are accident-prone.”We have one and the same compass: it is the safety of motorists“, says the chosen one.
The Ardèche is “one of the only departments to have neither highway nor passenger train“, he recalls. “With us, we don’t speak in kilometers but in time and today it’s clear: on a journey of 50 km per day round trip, we gain ten minutes on the way out and ten minutes on the way back. It is still not neutral for those who go to work or who have to drop their children off at school”concludes the president of the department.