Bus shelters. “New York, three minute break!”

The new aubette was installed in the heart of the city, between Place de la Victoire and Place Stenfort, as part of the redevelopment of the center, which lasted a year and a half. The bus shelter, called New York, was inaugurated in the presence of James Du Vernay, United States consul for the Great West, who came especially from Rennes.

The consul was first welcomed at the Château de Tronjoly by the mayor David Le Solliec, his deputy Catherine Henry and a delegation from the Bretagne TransAmerica association led by its president Jean-François Baudet. He visited the exhibition “These Bretons of America. Then head for the city center for the official inauguration of the bus shelter, between two showers. A frosted adhesive was installed on the windows of the bar: a very representative of New York with bridges and tall towers.

Gourin occupies a unique place in relations between Brittany and the United States

“The bus shelter is a place of departures and arrivals, it is quite a symbol for our municipality which was the epicenter of a great wave of emigration to the New World”, explained the mayor, before taking a lighter tone: “I can already imagine the bus driver announcing:” New York, three minutes stop! ” arriving in the city center ”. After presenting the Region’s transport missions, Anne Troalen also ended with a joke by proposing the idea of ​​a Gourin bus shelter in New York.

Finally, the consul recalled that “Gourin occupies a unique place in relations between Brittany and the United States and I am thinking today of all these Gourinois and more generally these Bretons who took the courageous decision to cross the Atlantic. for a new life ”. James Du Vernay is from New York. “It adds a little more meaning to this inauguration ceremony which also represents a homecoming because I have Norman origins (!)”, He says. Next meeting in Gourin, the inauguration of a new Statue of Liberty in 2020? In any case, the crowdfunding is closed and the Brittany TransAmerica association announces it. on his site : the project is validated!

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