Mobility Transport infrastructure: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes expects action from the State

This Friday, February 24, during the presentation of the report of the Infrastructure Orientation Council (COI) the Prime Minister, Elisabeth BORNE, ite in favor of a 100 billion euro investment plan for the railway by 2040. ” It’s a good news for the regionWho attend From now on to see what the commitments will bes concretes et financial l’Etat.“
That credits be earmarked for RER projects metropolitan is positive. ” From now on, the Region is waiting to know the amounts that will be actually consecrateds to these projects, which are essential for our regionsespecially within the Mobility section of the State Plan Contract – Region. The region will take part in the financing rolling stock that comes under its jurisdiction.
Auvergne–Rhône–Alps emits, Nevertheless, multiple alerts. If the mobilization of funds for metropolitan RERs is good news, the state must not forget the small railway lines either.
Having achieved in 2022 2.4 mibillions of euros in profits, the SNCF “must stop draining the budgets of the Regions by asking for ever larger sums. SNCF Réseau is planning to increase by more than 10% its tolls in Auvergne–Rhône–Alps in 2024, which is not not acceptable ;
On the link Lyon – Turin,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes estimates that ” the state must be height of the challenge for our territories… … Whatever the preferred scenario, the access roads do not would be realized at best than 10 years after the opening of the cross-border tunnel. Even in the most favorable scenario of “ infrastructure priority », only the studies would be carried out between 2023 and 2027, for work to start between 2033 and 2037. Such a delay is not acceptable and is not up to the challenge for our territories, car repel the achievement of the lanes access, It is Also to forbid improvement of daily trains – TER – in the Savoy and also on the axes of the star Lyon railway. It is imperative to act without delaypour secure the process of carrying out the work allowing the implementation of a schedule coherent, as close as possible to that of the opening of the tunnel basis, in agreement with the commitments made between France and Italy.“
Finally, the State must not forget, either, the road network. The Region hopes that the
government will devote significant funds to carrying out the road operations
which are required.