• This Friday, residents of Toulouse-Blagnac airport are organizing a flashmob in front of the prefecture to request the study of a night curfew.

  • A claim that comes as the Plan for the Prevention of Noise in the Airport Environment is undergoing public consultation.

  • It provides measures to reduce noise, but no night without a plane.

They want plane-free nights.

This Friday, at 12:30 p.m. in front of the prefecture, activists from the collective against air pollution in the Toulouse conurbation and elected officials will do a flashmob so that the State services launch a study on a night curfew at the airport. from Blagnac.

A mobilization that comes as the Environmental Noise Prevention Plan (PPBE) is currently subject to public consultation.

This document “fixes a framework, objectives and a set of 28 measures aimed at reducing noise pollution linked to aviation activities”, indicates the civil aviation directorate.

This involves adapting the take-off or landing direction, the choice between the right and left runways.

But also by "the possibility of taking off at the end of the runway, which takes the takeoff more than a kilometer away from the city and allows you to pass higher above the houses", argues the DGAC.

But “it does not provide for the study of a curfew because the measures taken should make it possible to meet the objectives set”, estimates the regulatory body.

Increase in residents affected by nighttime noise

This approach particularly irritates the group against air pollution in the Toulouse metropolitan area, which spoke out against this plan in the consultative commission for the environment of the airport.

“The PPBE submitted for public consultation is obsolete even before being validated because it covers the period 2018-2023.

But above all, it indicates in black and white that in a decade the number of people affected by nighttime noise above 50 dB has increased by 73% in the agglomeration”, plagues the president of the collective, Chantal Beer-Demander.

For her, it is absolutely necessary that the State services now study the possibility of a night curfew and no longer limit themselves to simple measures for a balanced approach "based on good will".

For this activist, we must follow the example of Beauvais, Strasbourg but also Orly which stopped flights in the middle of the night, others like those of Tokyo or Frankfurt having real curfews.

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