Highway A69: The government calls on the stopping of the site, ordered at the end of February by administrative justice – The Observatorial

An illiberal wind blows across the Atlantic and reaches European democracies. If in the case of the A 69 motorway judicial episodes may seem endless and sometimes contradictory, in the end: the law prevails.

The Ministry of Transport requested a stay of execution to resume the work of the A69 motorway, a project contested by environmental movements.

Nearly a month after the decision of administrative justice, Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot officially decided to challenge it on Monday 24 March.

On 27 February, the Toulouse Administrative Court ordered the stoppage of the Castres-Toulouse motorway construction site.

The increasing number of disputes over major infrastructure works is taking on a worrying turn. The heavy and necessary public consultation procedures now overlap with a multiplication of sometimes contradictory norms and obligations that undermine public action and the economic and human development of many Departments. For more than 40 years, for example, the southern Tarn has been waiting for the A69 motorway link to be connected to the Toulo…

The French government appealed the decision of the Toulouse administrative court on Monday. The court had ordered the A69 motorway construction to be halted at the end of February. Source: The post Will the A69 motorway finally be built? What the government's appeal changes first appeared on INTELLI.NEWS.