“We are swimming in the middle of Absurdistan.” Tuesday December 10, the town hall of Laigneville and the departmental council of Oise inaugurated Republic Street. Work where the main road in the town was completely refurbished for 14 months. This, before its reopening on August 30.
Good news for everyone, celebrated as it should be with speeches and petits fours. But for Mayor Christophe Dietrich, the opportunity is too good to add a few acerbic remarks to which he sometimes has the secret. The object of his ire this time: the imposing files to be completed and transmitted to the administrations during the preparatory phases. With the aim of obtaining some subsidies to reduce the bill.
Is our project not ambitious enough?
In his speech, Christophe Dietrich takes the particular case of the water agency. “I was very strongly asked to create grassy parking spaces to facilitate the absorption of rainwater,” explains the elected official. “The additional cost for the construction site was estimated at nearly 100,000 euros. But they explained to me that thanks to the water agency, we could obtain nearly 60,000 euros in subsidies.
Finally, the chief magistrate allows himself to be convinced. But it then lists all the technical requests made by the water agency. All this, in the end to obtain… 15,000 euros. “Because our project was not ambitious enough!!!”, says Christophe Dietrich.
“What did they want? A dirt road?
The elected official ends up expressing the little esteem he has for the administration, by calling out the sub-prefect of Clermont Noura Kihal-Flégeau, present at the inauguration. “I know very well what these ecologists from Parisian salons would have wanted: it is that we remove all the parking spaces and that the road is on dirt,” Christophe Dietrich quips, and perhaps that is where the project would have seemed to them. sufficiently ambitious.
And to add: “Please know that at no time did the services of the water agency come to the field to see why we had to design this project in this way. If they had come to the field we could have explained to them that the D916 is the relief route from the D1016 when an accident occurs on the latter and in particular on the part which goes from Cauffry to Nogent-sur-Oise and which is the most accident-prone axis of the Oise and even beyond.”
“It looks like the Paris ring road”
For Christophe Dietrich, Rue de la République in Laigneville quickly resembles “the Parisian ring road” in the event of an accident on the nearby D1016. This causes, over the years, a profound deterioration of the artery. Which justified the work carried out.
Rue de la République has been resurfaced from the Black Pearl to Chemin des Jardins, on the Nogent-sur-Oise side. “For the record, the paving stones that were under the bitumen dated from Louis XV,” explains Christophe Dietrich. “They were laid in 1740.”
Nearly 4 million euros invested
Amount of the operation: 2.2 million euros. A sum offset by 466,000 euros in subsidies, including 429.00 euros from the Oise department. “We must also add to the department’s credit the 109,620 euros for the community of communes and the nearly 670,000 euros for the renovation of the road carpet entirely covered by the departmental council, i.e. for the department a total sum of 1,246,260 euros.
More good news. The project turned out to be shorter than expected. Initially, it was supposed to last 20 months.
