For a first street initiative, the “Vivre sans BIP” collective could be satisfied. Several hundred people participated, Saturday October 7, in the marches departing from different municipalities in the south of Val d’Oise located on the route of the Boulevard intercommunal du Parisis (BIP), current avenue du Parisis, a 2×2 lane project. 21 kilometers to connect the A1 and A15 motorways.
Leaving from Montmorency, Deuil-la-Barre, Groslay, to the west and Arnouville to the east, the opponents met in Sarcelles for a summer picnic. This fight against the BIP is part of the numerous demonstrations of the “autumn season” of the La Déroute des routes network, which brings together 55 collectives fighting against road or motorway infrastructure projects.
On the edge of the small lake in Parc des Prés-sous-la-ville, the presence of several mayors, or their representatives, allowed the members of this collective created in 2009 to verify the fairly broad and transpartisan support they received. benefit. The collective is mainly made up of three associations, Les Amis de la Terre Val-d’Oise, SOS Vallée de Montmorency and France Nature Environnement 95, but also many local associations such as Mieux se Déplacer à bicyclette – Vallée de Montmorency.
A hundred hectares of woodland destroyed
Six municipalities are directly affected by the construction of this four-lane road, “the size of a highway, destroying in the process around a hundred hectares of natural and wooded spaces, shared gardens, remarkable trees…”, according to the description given by Audrey Boehly, 46 years old, leader of the Vivre sans BIP collective. Among these municipalities, four are against this project carried by the Val d’Oise departmental council: Montmorency (Les Républicains), Sarcelles (Socialist Party), Deuil-la-Barre (various right) and Groslay (various right). The town hall of Garges-lès-Gonesse has never taken a position. Luc Stréhaiano, mayor (LR) of Soisy-sous-Montmorency and vice-president of the departmental council, on the other hand, ardently supports the project because his town suffers from significant traffic and traffic jams.
As is often the case with these projects, the genesis goes back a long way. Very old even, since this idea of a “bar” to connect the east and west of the north of the Paris region, dates back to the end of the 1930s. We find traces of what was then called “interurban road project of Seine-et-Oise”, in the development project for the Paris region in 1956, which became “Seine-et-Oise interurban highway”, in the General Organization Plan for the Paris region, four years later .
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