Emmanuel Macron, who is struggling to make his mark on ecology, announced on Sunday November 27 that he would develop an equivalent of the RER Ile-de-France in ten French metropolises as an alternative to the car, with in particular a desire to speed up projects existing.
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| Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the Longvic gendarmerie school on 25 November. |
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“To achieve our ecological ambition, I want us to have a great national ambition: in ten large cities, in ten French cities, develop an RER network, an urban train network“explained the head of state in a sequence posted on YouTube, in which he answers questions from internet users on ecology.
The Regional Express Network (RER) brings together the regional trains that circulate at high speed in Ile-de-France. It has steadily expanded since the 1960s. “The RER is not only in Paris”, pleaded the president. “It is a great achievement for ecology, the economy, the quality of life” in the cities “where there are thromboses, too much circulationn,” he added.
According to his entourage, it is a question of ensuring that in these large metropolises “congested, people who commute can do it without a car, decarbonising their journeys thanks to these metropolitan RER”.
Emmanuel Macron limited himself to setting the goal, without setting a timetable or quantifying the necessary investments. It is Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, in charge of ecological planning, who will have to detail and then supervise these major works, the Elysee said.
The Presidency recalls that the law on mobility orientation launched in the previous five years paved the way, with around fifteen projects being studied or under reflection. is therefore “to accelerate” give priority to ten of them, adds an Elysian councilor, evoking Lille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Grenoble and Aix-Marseille among the probable cities chosen.
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This was stated by Bruno Gazeau, president of Fnaut (National Federation of Transport User Associations). “very favourable” to the project, that he “to discoverThe official indicates that he has already proposed to the government “a tender for projects on the metropolitan RER, thus forcing metropolises and regions to come to an agreement”. “We will have to increase the budget of SNCF Réseau. We await the details”, He added.
The socialist president of Occitania, Carole Delga, also welcomed the initiative. “The regional presidents’ call for a Rail+ New Deal has been heard“, he estimated, insisting on the achievement “quickly” Has “concrete acts”.
In October 2020, SNCF Réseau had presented a master plan to the government which presented a plan for the main railway junctions, at the request of Elisabeth Borne, then Minister of Transport. Objective: to develop new metropolitan services (“WHICH” for metropolitan express services or “RER” for the regional express network).
Concretely, Bordeaux Métropole has been considering a “RER metro“with the help of the department in particular. The 2020 revitalization plan therefore envisaged a budget to best prepare for the launch of these”RER” in Bordeaux, but also in Lille or Strasbourg. The presidential announcement comes as Emmanuel Macron has gone to the forefront to try to defend his environmental record in France.
While he had promised before his re-election to leave “twice as fast” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making ecological planning a priority, environmentalists and the left opposition believe that its actions are still insufficient.
Suddenly, after his participation in COP27 on climate in Sharm el-Sheikh and a meeting at the Elysée to push French industrialists who emit more CO2 to hasten theirsdecarbonization“, the head of state turned into a youtuber to personally defend his action in videos with an offensive tone and nervous editing.
Some in his camp see it as a remark from a Prime Minister who still is “tech” on this issue, and the ministers of energy and ecological transitions, Agnès Pannier-Runacher and Christophe Béchu, who are not “very visible”.
Elizabeth Borne “You referee, pilot, explain things a little more complicated and technical and give the timetable“said, with diplomacy, a minister Emmanuel Macron, he, “out of techno”, “it’s educational”he boasts.
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