LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse : dernière ligne droite avant Noël
While all the communities in Occitania have given their financial green light for the Bordeaux – Toulouse LGV, in New Aquitaine some resistance police such as Lot-et-Garonne who voted against unanimity. Bordeaux Métropole and the Gironde must vote next week to isolate Agen a little more.
The high-speed line between Bordeaux and Toulouse, “it’s for 2030” confirmed this week Carole Delga on the set of BFM TV, guest of Jean-Jacques Bourdin. The President of the Region puts all her weight in the file so that the schedule is kept. “It is a tight and demanding schedule”, had attributed for his part to The Dispatch Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse.
The ability to meet this deadline now depends on the speed with which the financing round is completed by the end of the year in order to create the financing company carrying the project on time. The State provides 4.1 billion euros and as much for local communities.
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And if on the Occitanie side, everything is complete, the local authorities of Nouvelle Aquitaine are still not all agreed on their financial participation. The EELV mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, has made his opposition known but he does not have a majority in the metropolitan council which will meet on November 25 and 26 to deliberate on the subject.
The elected PS, LREM and right, them, are in favor. What passes the position of the ecologist for the “gesticulation” according to Jean-Luc Moudenc. The departmental council of Gironde goes to a plenary session on Monday, November 22 to take a position.
The unanimous opposition of Lot-et-Garonne
It is especially in Lot-et-Garonne that the tension is most palpable. On October 22, the Departmental Council voted unanimously against any financial contribution for the LGV. The distribution key between the different communities would lead Lot-et-Garonne to pay a contribution of € 120 million. An amount described as “simply inconceivable” by the Socialist President Sophie Borderie.
Faced with these pitfalls on the home stretch of the LGV, the Prefect of Occitanie Etienne Guyot, who is the coordinator of the entire GPSO * project, went into the net. In an interview with a few journalists, he defended the LGV on Wednesday November 17, “a daily train for everyone”.
Finalization of the financing plan
This offensive comes a few days before the political positions of several local authorities on the finalization of the financing plan of more than 10.3 billion for which the State is injecting 40% (4.1 billion). The communities will contribute 4.1 billion at parity; the balance (20%) being financed by European credits.
On the part of the communities, those of Occitanie will contribute 55% or 2.98 billion euros; those of New Aquitaine 45%. Knowing that the communities of the former Midi-Pyrénées had financed the construction of the LGV between Tours and Bordeaux to the tune of € 300 million, the Lot-et-Garonne opposition made people cringe while the Landes department has say yes “. Ditto for the neighbor of the Lot whose departmental council voted favorably last Monday in favor of the LGV.
Its chairman Serge Rigal, for his part, understood all the interest of the arrival of high speed: “This will open up prospects for the POLT ** line. It is not a train against a train, but a train plus a train. Our TER will be linked to the LGV station of Bressols in Tarn-et-Garonne ”.
To brace itself, the Lot-et-Garonne could very quickly pass for the bad pupil of the class at the risk of seeing the LGV pass but without stopping in Agen.