The 2019-2024 infrastructure plan in Wallonia is planed. The new competent minister, Philippe Henry, has decided to abandon six road projects. It was questioned yesterday in committee of the Parliament on this point.
The Walloon Minister for Mobility and Infrastructures, Philippe Henry (Ecolo), warned that six motorway projects on the Walloon territory were buried, while they were part of the infrastructure plan of the previous majority.
The list of these abandoned works concerns the communes of Boussu, Herstal, Lessines, Lobbes, Rebecq and Saint-Ghislain (see map below), for an overall amount estimated at around 42 million euros.
Widely questioned in the Mobility Committee in the Walloon Parliament, yesterday, Minister Henry defended the abandonment of these projects, recalling that the "Regional Policy Statement is particularly ambitious in terms of alternative mobility to the individual car".
"You have to change your glasses; if we take the same glasses, we will just continue to make roads, it will just continue to cost more and more and we will not have the ability to solve either mobility problems or climate issues " says the minister.
But he specifies that the more detailed analysis still needs to be done on a case-by-case basis, over the entire infrastructure plan to verify the government's priorities. Alternative solutions are not excluded to solve local problems that have sometimes lasted for years.
This will not prevent to cringe in the communes concerned by the abandonment of the building sites as long as the problems are not solved.
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