The long standoff of residents to obtain a little more sleep – Liberation
Orly, southeast of Paris, is the most urban airport in Europe, with 750,000 more or less close residents, 500,000 of which would suffer from noise thanks to a flight every thirty seconds. Unlike Roissy, almost in the countryside north of the capital, where planes take off and land 24 hours a day, Orly is the subject of a curfew between 11:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. Not enough for the sleep of the just, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which recommends eight hours of night tranquility.
The subject has poisoned public authorities for a year, but final negotiations are underway. For the past month, delegations of local elected officials have been received in Rafale in Matignon, at the Ministry of Transport and by the Director General of Group ADP (ex-Aéroports de Paris, manager of Roissy and Orly). But without modifying, for the moment, the government’s wish not to disturb air traffic too much.
These elected officials are however standing against noise pollution, in a rare unanimity, as evidenced by a recent mail signed by 257 of them (including 158 vintage parliamentarians), from LFI to RN via President LR of the Senate, Gérard Larcher – difficult to rattle wider. He is addressed to Philippe Tabarot, current Minister of Transport, who has on his office a minimalist decree draft written a year ago by his services, but never signed to date due to a frenzied ministerial waltz in the wake of the dissolute
