2024-01-16 13:30:55
13h15.
Public transport heavily impacted in Toulouse
The farmers’ demonstration has seriously disrupted Tisséo bus traffic since 9 a.m. this morning. The bus lines passing through the city center L1, L8, L9, 14, 15, 23, 27, 29, 39, 45, 63, 66, 70 and the Airport Shuttle are diverted. The bus lines serving the Empalot L4, L5, 44, 54, 152 and Balma-Gramont interchange stations 20, 51, 68, 72, 101, 102, 103 are also diverted. Lines 34 and 44 as well as the Centre-Ville and Bonnefoy Shuttles are suspended. On the other hand, the 2 metro lines, the T1 tram line and the Téléo cable car are operating normally.
12h39.
Update from the prefecture at midday
Since 8:30 this morning, a demonstration by farmers from the Occitanie region has been underway in Toulouse. After regrouping at various points in the Toulouse metropolitan area, the convoys gradually arrive in the city center of Toulouse. Traffic remains severely disrupted on the Toulouse ring road. Nearly 1000 demonstrators and more than 400 tractors are counted at this stage. State services have been mobilized at the prefecture’s departmental operational center (COD) since this morning at 8:30 a.m. The police supervise the demonstrators on the ground.
10h51.
Ariège mobilized massively
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09h53.
The annoyance of Young Farmers
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09h21.
Farmers plan to dump manure
Most of the farmers’ union leaders (FDSEA and Young Farmers) are currently meeting at Place du Capitole in Toulouse. They came with their personal vehicle. All of the convoys, “more than 400 tractors”, according to FDSEA 31, are still on the road and should enter Toulouse around 10 a.m. Farmers planned to dump manure in Toulouse in front of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), rue du Fereta (Empalot), the Adour-Garonne Water Agency (Empalot), the Administrative City, boulevard Lascrosses and the Services and Payment Agency (ASP), avenue Didier Daurat in Blagnac. Furthermore, the farmers had asked to meet the regional prefect Pierre-André Durand at the town hall of Toulouse (Capitol), but a delegation of eight representatives will finally be received, from 1 p.m., at the Haute-Garonne prefecture , we indicate.
08h53.
Disruptions on the Tisseo network
As a reminder, the mobilization of farmers will cause significant disruptions to bus traffic in Toulouse. Customers should expect delays. The bus lines passing through the city center L1, L8, L9, 14, 15, 23, 27, 29, 39, 45, 63, 66, 70 and the Airport Shuttle are diverted. The bus lines serving the Empalot L4, L5, 44, 54, 152 and Balma-Gramont interchange stations 20, 51, 68, 72, 101, 102, 103 are also diverted. The city center and Bonnefoy shuttles are suspended. On the other hand, the metro, the T1 tram line and the Téléo cable car should operate normally.
08:50.
The Ariège tractors have left, heading towards Toulouse
Ariège farmers have just left Pamiers. They will join the regional procession in Toulouse within two hours. The mobilization is strong in Ariège since around fifty tractors from the department have taken to the road. Around 300 other farmers from the department are also expected in the Pink City at 11 a.m.
Around 50 tractors took to the road in Ariège. DDM – Damien Souillé 08:30.
The 4 targets of farmers in Toulouse
Once entering Toulouse in the morning, the 400 farmers’ tractors will divide up to reach four targets: the administrative city (Compans-Caffarelli district), the French biodiversity office (90 rue du Férétra), the biodiversity agency Adour-Garonne water (90 rue du Férétra) and the Balma payments agency (78 rue Saint-Jean.
08h23.
The farmers’ demonstration expected around 9 a.m. on the Toulouse ring road
The farmers planned to leave at 8:30 a.m. from several assembly points around the pink city in Castelnau-d’Estretefonds, Aussonne, Léguevin, Capens, Pins-Justaret, Verfeil, Auterive and Villefranche-de-Lauragais. Radio Vinci Autoroutes announces slowdowns on the Toulouse ring road due to traffic density, not yet because of the mobilization of farmers. Groupings are reported at motorway entrances on the A20 in Caussade and on the A62 in Castelsarrasin. A convoy is reported on the A62 between Valence-d’Agen and Castelsarrasin with around ten tractors.
Gathering of farmers in Capens (31), this morning. Photo DDM, NSA 08:15.
Top start in Ariège
The gathering took place at 8 a.m. at the Gabrielat roundregarding in Pamiers. Around twenty tractors are expected for this first Ariégeois procession. Other gathering points will also take place in Saint-Girons and in the Arize/Leze sector. In total, around forty tractors from the department should arrive in Toulouse at the end of the morning
The tractors, ready for departure in Pamiers, in Ariège. Photo DDM – Damien Souillé 07h50.
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07h30.
Disturbances, traffic jams… what awaits you this Tuesday
The farmers perched on their tractors meet for a departure at 8:30 a.m. from around ten meeting points: Villefranche-de-Lauragais, Capens, Boussens, Pins-Justaret, Aussonne, Léguevin, Castelnau d’Estrétefonds and Verfeil.
All expressway accesses to the Toulouse metropolitan area will therefore be invested: the A61, A62, A64, A68 motorways, but also the N124 to the west, or the D820 to the south. Suffice it to say that traffic will be very difficult this Tuesday, January 16, from early in the morning.
They plan to stop at the Administrative City at 10 a.m. and reach the Place du Capitole via the boulevards at 11 a.m. without blocking all the roads before meeting at the Haute-Garonne prefecture around 1 p.m.
06h55.
Public transport: what is Tisséo planning?
The mobilization of farmers will cause significant disruptions to bus traffic in Toulouse. Customers should expect delays. The bus lines passing through the city center L1, L8, L9, 14, 15, 23, 27, 29, 39, 45, 63, 66, 70 and the Airport Shuttle are diverted. The bus lines serving the Empalot L4, L5, 44, 54, 152 and Balma-Gramont interchange stations 20, 51, 68, 72, 101, 102, 103 are also diverted. The city center and Bonnefoy shuttles are suspended. On the other hand, the metro, the T1 tram line and the Téléo cable car should operate normally.
06h48.
Who organizes the mobilization of farmers?
Farmers are responding to the call from the FRSEA (Regional Federation of Farmers’ Unions) and the Young Farmers of Occitanie.
06h47.
Why are farmers demonstrating in Toulouse?
Farmers will demonstrate to defend their declining income, for access to water, once morest rising taxes and unfair competition from imported products. “There is an emergency and a distress never before known. In Occitanie, we have the greatest number of productions under official quality label (red label, AOP, AB, etc.) and the lowest income in France,” explains Jean -Baptiste Gibert, president of the FRSEA of Tarn-et-Garonne
06h45.
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