more than a hundred personalities are calling for the project to be stopped
It is a project that provides for the construction of a 54 kilometer highway in Castres and Verfeil, for a time saving of 35 minutes. UN hundred personalities opposing in a collective forum The way is clear to the A69 Toulouse-Castres. They are researchers, scientists, deputies, or personalities from the world of culture and demand the pure and simple cessation of the project motorway connection.
They denounce an “emblematic project of a destructive development model and exceeded” for “derisory traffic” of “6,000 vehicles per day”.
A logic of “concreting”
In this forum, they protest:
Against all logic, if it’s not cit of concreting and the promotion of polluting modes of transport, it was decided to use a motorway concession, parallel to the existing national road. This remained as it was, in defiance of the general interestwhile all the elements plead in favor of a secure development of the latter”
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Among the signatories of the tribune, theToulouse economist Genevieve Azam, of political figures such as Manuel Bompard, Michel Larive or even Monique de Marco, but also researchers, agronomists, biologists… By their side, cultural actors such as directors Coline Serreau and Yannis Youlountas and actor Xavier Czapla. In total, they are more than a hundred.
“Elected officials who give in to private lobbies”
According to them, the A69 Toulouse-Castres would be “the exemplary illustration of the myopia of elected officials who give in to private lobbies […] refusing to take new realities into account.” They conclude by asking the government to “respect engagements in terms of soil artificialisation, mobility, and adaptation to the environmental and societal upheaval in progress” and end “without delay to this destructive project.”
As a reminder, the Toulouse-Castres motorway is mentioned for more than twenty years. The concessionaire chosen for its construction is the public works group NGE. Commissioning could take place by 2025.
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