Members of the Y’en a marre association will be present on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 September, on Place Piquand and near the Nicauds footbridge, to draw the attention of passers-by to the future of this passage and have a petition.
In Montluçon, the Nicauds footbridge will not be restored: “A new part of our heritage will be erased”
This initiative is taken when the majority announced this summer during a municipal council that it did not wish to restore the Nicauds footbridge, built at the end of the 19th century, but was considering the construction of a new pedestrian crossing more upstream.
This 120-year-old footbridge which has suffered from a lack of maintenance for 20 years is a piece of heritage carefully evaded from the next Heritage Days this coming weekend
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“This historic footbridge is remarkable in terms of its construction with forged rivets like the Eiffel Tower, but it is above all a means of recreating and developing a pedestrian or bicycle path to and from the historic center (the heart of the city and the station), for a large part of the left bank ”, argues the association, which regrets that the town hall has not made known“ the cost of construction of the new footbridge nor that of the deconstruction of that of Nicauds ”.
The Y’en a marre collective was formed in 2018, in particular to challenge the project for a media library on Avenue de l’Europe.
Guillaume Bellavoine
“The Nicauds footbridge has a strong meaning for Montluçon, it belongs to its working class past, it is its memory”
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