Sent October 27, 2022, 12:23 pm
The abandonment of the TGV line between Nancy, Dijon and Lyon may not be appropriate for the elected representatives of the three agglomerations. Mathieu Klein (PS), Francois Rebsamen (PS) and Grégory Doucet (EELV), the respective mayors of the three cities, have just signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Transport Minister Clément Beaune, in which they ask for the connection to be reopened.
“We are today in an anachronistic situation in which the car has become the most competitive transport solution to connect Nancy to Lyon, despite the fact that the railway infrastructure exists,” the three elected officials believe.
Train versus machine
For the record, the Nancy-Lyon line was suspended in 2018 due to the saturation of the “interchange hub at the Lyon Part-Dieu station”, they explained to AFP. According to the three mayors, the situation is all the more paradoxical as the freight transport activity continues “even today” on this line. Refusing to ask for “new heavy investment projects, with an uncertain timetable”, Mathieu Klein François Rebsamen and Gregorio Doucet they ask for “a just restitution of the trains that were running”.
“This railway line cannot be abandoned in favor of a refocusing of LGV on Paris without being felt by our fellow citizens as a profound denial of territorial realities”, they write in their letter. At the time of energy crisis and increasing environmental concerns, the abandonment of the link favors the use of the car. The only direct train between the city of Lorraine and Lyon takes almost 6 hours, compared to 3h45 for a road trip. The AFP recalls that in December 2020 a report by the Directorate General for Infrastructures “already recommended the establishment of a balance line in the territory between Metz and Lyon-Grenoble via Nancy and Dijon”. a project that has remained a dead letter.
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