“Co-build a district” with the inhabitants

Let us concede it immediately, the Metz road, axis constituting one of the entrances to Thionville, is not frankly the most pleasant of the penetrates of the second city of Moselle. The ZAC du Gassion has a prominent place there in terms of commercial activity involving dealers and other companies that have taken root there. In its campaign program, the current municipality had promised to look into the issue.

In business, she commissioned a research firm to improve the living environment (reflection on circulatory flows, parking, burying networks, new link with the Moselle, etc.). However, residents of the area defend the idea that this little piece of Thionville can gain visibility, human warmth. In particular thanks to the recent association created by involved Thionville residents, determined to make their voices heard and convinced that a neighborhood spirit reigns there.

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Association of residents

Attentive to the comments of residents, the very young Association of Residents of the Metz road brings together volunteers aware of the environment in which they have put their bags: a nearby motorway, a structure dedicated to the emergency reception of victims. supported by Athens, and a frequented Departmental. His fight is elsewhere, as explained by two representatives of the collective. Caroline Hissiger and Michael Grin are campaigning for the municipality to listen to their complaints.

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Feeling of having been a time of the “forgotten”

“We know that the municipality has budgeted for a rehabilitation program, they are aware. However, the development of the Europort area, with the flow of trucks to come, raises fears of traffic causing more nuisance. »Other fears, in particular the speed of vehicles passing through this route, are worrying.

Far from them the idea of ​​advancing as “polemicists, anti-development of the sector. We wish a co-construction with the town hall of our neighborhood life, affirms the association, ready to become “a transmission belt” between the residents of the sector and the elected officials. More greenery, more means to cut the speed. For the collective, this environment has “potential. We have ideas. “And now a legitimacy, say the members, to bring up the grievances of those who, for a time, had the feeling of having been” forgotten “.In addition to this, you need to know more about it.

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