Is the government backing down on limiting speed to 80 km / h on secondary roads? Tuesday, at the launch of the "great national debate", Emmanuel Macron declared himself open to arrangements to ensure that the controversial measure is "better accepted" by the French. For lawyer specializing in road law Jehanne Collard, invited Tuesday night Europe 1, the presidential statement is not "a step back", and could instead help "to win the fight against road safety".
"Our country's road safety problem is that France has still not accepted the measures taken to save lives, and there is no social adherence to road safety measures," she said. she estimated at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard. "So revising its copy to make sure that we do not cancel measures that save lives, but that we make sure that they are accepted, it may be to win the fight of road safety" .
"The French do not adhere to the measures". For Jehanne Collard, the announcement of Emmanuel Macron is "not a step back." "It is taking into account the stupidity of the French.The French do not adhere to the measures that are taken to save their lives.So we must find solutions so that the French understand that these measures are not made to annoy them. but to save them, "she said.
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Speaking Tuesday to 600 Norman mayors gathered at Grand Gourtheroulde to kick off the "great national debate", Emmanuel Macron called on elected officials to "make proposals" on the issue. "We must together find a smarter way to implement it.There is no dogma," said the head of state.