The ADEME will make "an overall assessment" to measure the effects of a possible limitation to 110 km / h of the maximum speed on the highway, proposed by the Citizen's Climate Convention, said Wednesday the Minister of Ecological Transition, Elisabeth Borne.
"Why did they put this proposal forward? Because studies - or at least what they may have heard, and I think that is the case - show that if you lower the speed, you reduce greenhouse gas emissions ", a Exposé Borne before the Senate commission of inquiry on motorway concessions.
The 150 members of the Commission had to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 and "they are in their role to say '' why not use this lever ''” , she said, noting that they were "aware" that such a measure "poses a problem of acceptability".
A referendum to decide?
"The Ademe (the Energy Transition Agency) is in the process of reviewing the results" of a reduction in the maximum speed from 130 to 110 km / h on the motorway taking into account side effects such as the postponement of traffic on secondary axes, noted the Minister.
“The government is well aware of the sensitivity of the subject. We have not forgotten the 80 km / h "which had been one of the triggers of the" yellow vests "crisis, said Elisabeth Borne. The minister said on RMC on Monday that she was "personally" in favor of such a measure.
“I think it is important, on subjects like this, to verify that there is indeed support from the French and those who are directly concerned. It's not my case. (…) I don't take my car every morning to travel 30 kilometers back and forth on the highway, ”she then nuanced. The question could be submitted to referendum, among other questions, for his part advanced Monday the Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
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Elisabeth Borne favors 110 km / h on the highway
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