Liège Road Network Snow Clearance: Ensuring Access to Emergency Services

2024-01-20 13:49:00

While the Liège road network, which has nearly 660 kilometers of roads, 550 of which are municipal and 110 regional, was suddenly covered in a thick coat of snow, the spreading services of the City of Liège and the SPW increased outings, from 4 a.m. this Wednesday, January 17. The objective was to avoid chaos on the roads of course but also to allow 600,000 people to maintain access to the 4 emergency services (CHU, Bruyères, CHR and CHC) in Liège. “600,000 people for whom it is vital to ensure, at all times, optimal accessibility”, recalled Mayor Willy Demeyer and Works Alderman Roland Léonard today.

This is the reason why the Liège mayor also wanted to deplore this weekend “the total lack of respect by heavy goods vehicle drivers of the ban on driving on the motorways decided by the regional authorities”. As a reminder, a ban on driving on the E25 and E42 was decreed this Wednesday, for heavy goods vehicles over 13 tonnes, in order to precisely prevent these trucks from finding themselves in difficulty and blocking traffic. …which nevertheless happened in several places on the motorway, even forcing the authorities to temporarily close the tunnel connection under Cointe on Wednesday evening.

“These uncivil behaviors have not only trapped many motorists on the motorway network but have also endangered the population by seriously hindering access to emergency services, particularly access to the CHC Mont Légia,” insisted the mayor of Liège. .

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