PostedJune 26, 2022, 5:42 PM
The repair of a paving between two valleys despairs the commuters, forced to pass through Bienne in traffic jams.
Mauro would like to go through Orvin to reach the Plateau de Diesse, but the Orvin – Evilard section is open, as is the road leading to Prés-d’Orvin.
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In the heart of the paved village, the speed is limited to 20 km/h, this zone will be extended to the west.
lematin.ch/Sébastien Anex
A blocked road, that of Sonville, and it is mismanagement in Orvin, above Biel. Replacing 100,000 cobblestones takes time when there are only four craftsmen. After an inconsequential warm-up, the second stage of the repair of the deformed roadway is in full swing on the west side, on the road linked to the Plateau de Diesse and, further on, to Neuchâtel.
In St-Ursanne (JU), a medieval city on the banks of the Doubs, the repair of the paving had complicated the life of the villagers, but less that of the commuters. In Orvin (BE), between two valleys, the configuration is different. “Where do the ambulances go?” asks Mauro, a commuter.
Access to the Plateau de Diesse via Orvin is closed, and vice versa. Traffic is diverted via Bienne and La Neuveville, on a section of the A5 being repaired and limited to 60 km/h. The third stage will see the development of a small square and a pedestrian path leading to the bakery.
seven years
In Orvin, the baker Esther Weingart loses half of her turnover. To reduce damage, it opened a food truck in Biel from 5:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., at rue de Zurich 15, in the Champs-de-Boujean industrial zone. At the grocery store too, with the loss of commuters, there are fewer customers morning and evening, even if this section is not yet under construction, on the Evilard and Bienne side.
It took seven years of planning for Orvin to arrive at the current reconstruction, in a historic site of national significance. According to “Le Journal du Jura”, it was a petition that launched the reflection on this vast project, cohabitation between motorists and the population had become impossible.
U-turn
Next fall, from August to September, the road to Evilard will be sealed off. Orvin will be cut in two and traffic management promises to be even more complicated, despite a pedestrian crossing between the small square and the bakery. The buses will turn around in the village square and will no longer serve the church stop.
Traffic will once once more be interrupted in 2023 between the village square and the Frinvillier exit, three months in the spring, then four months in the summer. Finally. a final section will be repaved in 2024, in the spring.
4400: lhe number of vehicles passing through Orvin daily, including 2,500 from Lamboing to Frinvillier, a village connected to the motorway network.
4, 26: en million, the cost of work on this transit road, including 3.3 million borne by the Canton.
