• The development of the Bellevue complex aims to reduce traffic jams in this sector of the ring road.

  • Drilling has started on the Loire to examine the soil. 

This is a vision that could appeal to more than one motorist: a crane on the Loire.

In fact, for the past few days, a crane has been floating on the river, on the edge of the Nantes ring road, very close to the Bellevue bridge.

This work, in place since October 11, will be present for a period of three months.

This platform is installed as part of preliminary studies for the development project of the Bellevue complex on the Nantes ring road.

In order to improve traffic conditions on this section of the ring road, in a north-south direction, a new bridge will be built to widen the existing structure by adding three lanes.

The DREAL (Regional Directorate for the Environment, Planning and Housing) of Pays-de-la-Loire, the project owner, is therefore planning a new crossing of the Loire.

"The concrete piers that will carry the tracks of the future bridge will be built in line with the existing piers", explains the Loire-Atlantique prefecture.

A "particular and complex" operation

Hence the presence of this crane on the floating platform, the objective of which is to carry out soundings in the Loire, to define the type of foundation to be planned.

"This operating method avoids impacts on biodiversity and protected species on the shore", indicates the prefecture.

An operation described as "particular and complex".

A public consultation on the future structure is planned by the end of the year.

Work eagerly awaited, just like those that started around the Porte de Gesvres.

Those of the Bellevue Bridge are not about to begin, this is a preliminary phase, then giving way to public consultation.

No end date for the work has yet been scheduled.

It will probably take at least four years to see the bridge widened.

Nantes

Nantes: Peripheral cut and big traffic jams this Tuesday morning after a heavy vehicle accident

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Ardennes: A man drags his two dogs behind his car for several hundred meters

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