Third metro line in Toulouse: the new offensive of the municipal opposition
The environmental public inquiry, which will be examined by the Toulouse city council on Tuesday, is leading opposition groups to put the 3rd metro line back in the hot seat.
Bad luck for the 3rd metro line which nevertheless passed the milestone of two municipal elections in 2014 and 2020, a major debate in 2016, a declaration of public utility in 2020 and which is the subject, in Tisséo and in the Metropolis, of a broad political consensus. The environmental public inquiry, on which the city council must give its opinion on Tuesday, is an opportunity for several environmental associations and opposition groups to step up to challenge this project expected for the end of 2028.
Based on the contributions of three associations, Les Faiseurs de ville, Alternatiba and Amis de la terre, some of the former elected Archipel (the municipalist group at the town hall and in the Metropolis) also affirm that the carbon footprint of the 3rd line will not be positive before “2085”. “Tisséo’s figures are insincere”, denounced this Thursday Agathe Roby (La France insoumise) during a press briefing, “particularly because they do not take into account the work part”, that is to say greenhouse gas emissions caused by the construction site. And because, according to her, car journeys have stopped once the 3rd line is in service will not be as numerous as Tisséo claims.
Agathe Roby denies being “anti-3rd line” but she recommends doing “by sections”, first with the Colomiers-Matabiau part. Which would free up, in his eyes, financial margins for an “emergency plan” made up of cycle paths, buses, trams and RER.
For François Piquemal, it is necessary at the very least “to review the public inquiry” to “judge on reliable things”. And he invites Jean-Luc Moudenc, whose policy he taxes as “amateurism”, a “more caution” in view of the pitfalls encountered by the Urban Plan and the Mobility Plan.
An “oversold” project
For his part, Antoine Maurice (EELV), who chairs the other group resulting from the split of Archipelago, and whom we have asked, is also very critical of the 3rd line. His political formation is also focused on the figures of the carbon footprint for the protesters in turn in the name, among other things, of “the management of the rubble and the felling of trees”. For Antoine Maurice, the presentation of Tisséo is neither more nor less “an organized lie to sell the 3rd line as the solution”. To this project, he also opposes “an emergency plan”. And if he invites Jean-Luc Moudenc “to review the copy”, he does not decide on the other hand for or against the 3rd line. “It’s up to him how he responds. »