“We want people to be able to sleep soundly”, reaffirmed, Wednesday March 20, several dozen local elected officials from municipalities bordering the four major Parisian airports – Charles-de-Gaulle (Roissy, Val-d’Oise), Orly (Val-de-Marne), Le Bourget ( Seine-Saint-Denis) and Beauvais – gathered before the National Assembly. These mayors and municipal councilors are demanding for airport residents “the right to live in a serene and peaceful environment”.
To obtain the reduction of “air nuisance”, 147 municipalities close to these airport platforms are organizing, from Monday March 11 and until Sunday March 24, a public consultation with their citizens. The results of this ballot will be transmitted to the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, and to the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, Patrice Vergriete.
The objective of elected officials, explains Eugénie Ponthier, deputy mayor of Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis) and president of the collective of elected officials fighting against terminal 4 of Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, is “to reduce air traffic by 15%” of these four airports. “We are not against the planeshe adds, but domestic plane lines must be transferred to the train. » Likewise, “when you travel in Europe, you can take the train”.
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For his part, Gérard Bouthier, municipal councilor of Yerres (Essonne) and president of the association Defense of residents of Paris-Orly airport reminds the State that “the plane is a necessary evil, but there are people below whose health is affected”. Like the other elected officials, he pleads for “a limitation of the number of flights and compliance with curfew times”, which exist at Orly, unlike Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle.
Elected officials would like the new Minister of Transport to hold “the promises made last year” by his predecessor, Clément Beaune. The latter had agreed, Mr. Bouthier said, that he “had to move to capping scenarios for large airports”. As attempted for a time, before being forced to backtrack, the Dutch authorities, who wanted to reduce from 500,000 to 460,000 the number of annual movements (landings and takeoffs) at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport .
In Orly, elected officials and associations are calling for an extension of the curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., and no longer just from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. They also claim that “fines and sanctions will be taken if the flight restriction orders are not respected” by certain companies, indicates the municipal councilor of Yerres.
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