2023-06-04 13:10:00
This first weekend of June 2023 will remain in the memories of motorists who dared, at their expense, to take the E42 motorway towards Battice. Endless traffic jams were created following the closure of this motorway between the Verviers-sud exit and Ensival. Because all the traffic was diverted by the rue des Étangs, the rue des Carrières, the Amiral Brasseur-Kermadec roundregarding to reach the motorway entrance at Ensival.
While at certain times of the day, it is usually already difficult not to find traffic jams to access the Kermadec roundregarding, it was written that the situation was going to be apocalyptic.
In fact, this Saturday, it took between 1 hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to cover the few kilometers between Laboru and the Ensival motorway entrance. All under a sun that quickly overheated the cabins. Fortunately, civil protection intervened from Saturday noon to supply water to the unfortunate motorists. Moreover, the firefighters of the VHP rescue zone also came to the aid of distributing drinking water.
As for the secondary roads, they were also very quickly saturated. Motorists familiar with the area or using Waze took every possible and imaginable path to reach Ensival. Also creating a blockage of part of the city. The Laboru motorway exit even had to be closed to avoid more trouble.
As for this Sunday, the situation was also chaotic. Especially, this time, that the center of Heusy was closed, except for a main axis, to traffic following the organization of the annual flea market….
Even if it was very urgent to repair this section of the motorway between Verviers-south and Ensival following potholes which grew during the winter, other mobility solutions were perhaps to be expected. upstream to avoid such an incident.
Let’s hope that the next works at this place will be better planned, especially during events like the Formula 1 Grand-Prix which will attract no less than 110,000 people every day. And a good part of which will survey the future work planned with two tapes which will certainly still be in circulation…
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