“Insane project”, “small egoisms” … The LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse unleashes passions
The high-speed line project between Bordeaux and Toulouse is unleashing passions in Occitania. And it is the mayor of Bordeaux, the ecologist Pierre Hurmic, who revived the controversy on Thursday, October 28, details France 3. The elected thus called for “to do everything possible to stop this senseless project”, while a call for the examination of alternative solutions, in particular the improvement of the existing ways, was launched. “They are trying to trick us by saying that it is the LGV or nothing,” said Pierre Hurmic.
The elected official even speaks of an “anachronistic” project for this line which must pass south of Bordeaux, towards Toulouse and Dax. A project relaunched by the government and defended by the PS presidents of the New Aquitaine and Occitanie Regions and of the Bordeaux metropolitan area, indicates France 3. But Pierre Hurmic persists and signs: “We have already swallowed up billions of euros in the high-speed lines. We have seen that this has dried up our territories, that it was done to the detriment of a mesh of our regional rail network (TER) … “
“It’s easy when you’re two hours from Paris”
The mayor of Bordeaux, also first vice-president of the Bordeaux metropolis, thus opposes the president Alain Anziani on the 320 million allocated to finance the railway installations in the south of Bordeaux. The ecologist refuses that they are used for the LGV. A contradictory position for Alain Anziani. “Environmentalists don’t want the plane. Now they don’t want a train. What do they want? Cars? Is that an environmentalist’s dream? No more cars and freight on trucks rather than trains? ”he quipped.
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Same misunderstanding on the side of the PS president of the New Aquitaine Region. “It hurts me coming from the mayor of Bordeaux”, he told France 3 before affirming: “There is an ecological logic to make this second railway line”. For his part, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc denounces a “fairly selfish” attitude of the mayor of Bordeaux at the microphone of Sud Radio, denouncing a “controversial statement that sounds like a rearguard fight”.
“The problem of environmentalists is that they are against the metro, against the LGV, against the plane”, loses the mayor of Toulouse. Even his son on the side of the president of the Occitanie Region Carole Delga who has the “little egoisms” of Pierre Hurmic. In a press release relayed by 20 minutes, she tackles the environmentalist mayor: “It’s easy when you’re mayor of Bordeaux, when you’re two hours from Paris to explain to others that they don’t need to be close” to the capital.
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