Toulouse. Jean-Luc Moudenc signs the LGV financing protocol
The mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole Jean-Luc Moudenc signed the LGV financing protocol on Tuesday 8 February.
“Paris on rails”, announces the town hall of the pink city. The mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR) signed the financing protocol for the high-speed line (LGV) on Tuesday 8 February. It should make it possible to connect Toulouse to Paris, via Bordeaux, in three hours.
“I am happy to see that the broad dynamic around this great project has been able to bring together the main players essential to its realization,” says Jean-Luc Moudenc in a press release. “State, European Union and local authorities have succeeded in asserting our strong desire to see our territory served by the TGV. And that in just five months. »
He believes that “despite the positions of some elected officials curled up on their ideology, this demonstrates, and so much the better, that the values of solidarity and respect for the word given are still shared in our great south-west. »
Jean-Luc Moudenc, a defender of the LGV in Toulouse
On Tuesday February 8, the prefect of the Occitanie region, Étienne Guyot, sent the finalized financing plan for the Toulouse-Bordeaux LGV to the 24 local authorities concerned. They must sign it before February 15. The president of the Toulouse metropolis therefore signed it the same day. With Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie regionJean-Luc Moudenc is one of the fervent defenders of the arrival of the TGV in Toulouse.
As a reminder, the State has undertaken to pay 4.1 billion euros to make the LGV a reality, ie 40% of the total bill. For its part, the European Union will contribute 20%. The remaining 40% is the responsibility of the communities.