In Marseille, residents of Estaque refuse the disappearance of their bus line
There are changes in the project for a new bus network in the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis by 2025. According to current plans, in L’Estaque, certain lines will be cut: the 95 bus should even disappear. Instead, the Metropolis provides a transport shuttle on demand, by reservation. A project strongly requested by the inhabitants, and users of this line 95, in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille.
Solange, a resident of Montée Pichou, has lived in L’Estaque for 74 years. For her, this bus is the only way to get out of her house: “I go down to L’Estaque every morning, how do i get back up? With my packages, I need the shuttle“. A bus that she also uses very regularly to reach the North Hospital.
“The little we manage to acquire, we come and they threaten to take it away from us”
“We cannot cut a district of the city of Marseille. It’s a question of isolation”, exclaims Hanifa. This mother fought for the creation of this line in 1998 so that her children could go to school. “The little we manage to acquire, we come and they threaten to take it away from us”, she continues. However, it is not for lack of paying his taxes, she underlines: “We are citizens of Marseille, we pay our taxes. Taxes are very high in l’Estaque. No metro, no tram, to get to the hospital you need a car… It is certainly not by removing public services that we will make up for this delay.
So the Hauts de l’Estaque neighborhood interest committee (CIQ) organized a public meeting this Saturday, January 28, against this project. “There are people who have no other possibility of getting around in this neighborhood“explains Marie-Blanche Chamoulaud, vice-president of the CIQ.
A public consultation in progress
However, the CIQ does not lose hope. A public consultation is in progress until February 28
, and these inhabitants hope to win their case. In any case, Nadia Boulainseur, mayor of the 15th and 16th arrondissements of Marseille as well as Sébastien Delogu, MP for Bouches-du-Rhône in the 7th district of Marseille, present at this public meeting, affirmed their support.