Roads cracking beneath the impact of heatwaves, railways deformed by warmth, bridges destroyed by floods, water networks examined by repeated droughts… local weather change is not an summary risk to French infrastructure: it accelerates their deterioration, at the price of service interruptions and growing payments for communities.
In an opinion adopted on Tuesday January 13, the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC) makes a blunt statement: these infrastructures – roads, bridges, airports, rail, river, water or vitality networks – are on the similar time appreciable, important… and weak.
The trigger is an extended interval of underinvestment which has allowed a “grey debt” to build up, made up of delays in upkeep and renovation. It has weakened the constructions, at a time when climatic disasters are growing in depth and frequency.
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