According to the article published by MEDEF Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, these services are “crucial for the future of our region and its economy”.
Press release from MEDEF Bourgogne-Franche-Comté of October 16, 2023:
The Mulhouse-Lille TGV line via Belfort-Montbéliard, Besançon, Dijon, Montbard, Marne-la-Vallée and Roissy was suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three years later, while the epidemic is behind us, the line has still not been restored despite a petition launched in recent months and the repeated intervention of several elected officials in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region.
In 2020, due to Covid, SNCF suspended, among others, the Mulhouse-Lille TGV service via Belfort-Montbéliard, Besançon, Dijon, Montbard, Marne-la-Vallée and Roissy. The understanding was natural: France was at a standstill and the situation was tragic. Three years later, this service has still not been restored. This suspension is starting to last: it is profoundly harmful to the activity and economic attractiveness of our territories.
Recently, Saône-et-Loire lost the stop at Creusot TGV station on the Roissy-Lyon line. Travelers who can get on at Le Creusot station to go to Roissy can no longer get off there on the way back, even though the TGV passes through this station but no longer stops there.
MEDEF Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the leading employers’ organization in BFC with 6,000 member companies in our region, totaling 336,000 employees, reaffirms its attachment to the train which, more than ever, is an essential mode of travel for its development economical, ecological and therefore, future-oriented. Today, together with the elected representatives of our territories, we are demanding the restoration of the daily Mulhouse-Lille TGV service and that at the Creusot TGV station on the Roissy-Lyon line. They are crucial for the future of our region and its economy.
Burgundy-Franche-Comté, and its 2.8 million inhabitants, is the fourth exporting region of France and needs to be connected to the major economic centers of western France and northern Europe.
The Mulhouse-Lille and Roissy-Lyon TGV services, which stop at Roissy, thus connect our region to an international airport. Without a rail service that connects us directly to major European cities or to an international airport, how can we plan the economic development of our territories?
Restoring these services means investing in the future, creating opportunities for our businesses and preserving our environment. Much more than a railway line, the Mulhouse-Lille and Roissy-Lyon line embody the promise of economic and demographic development for our region.
More than ever, the SNCF must be faithful to its public service mission, to the strategic challenges of the economy of our country and its territories.
Elisabeth GRENIN – President of MEDEF BFC
Emmanuel VIELLARD – President of MEDEF Territoires Franc-Comtois
David BUTET – President of MEDEF 21
Fabien ROSSIGNOL – President of MEDEF 71
Jean-Pierre ALAUX – President of MEDEF 58
Emmanuèle BONNEAU – President of MEDEF 89
Presentation of the MEDEF Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: it brings together the 8 departments of our region through 5 territorial MEDEFs (Côte-d’Or, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne and Franche-Comté territories), 14 professional branches – metallurgy , agri-food, plastics industry, chemistry, construction, public works, quarries and materials, road transport, temporary work, SYNTEC (engineering, consulting, digital, events), professional training, banking, automobile, dairy cooperatives – and 5 associated members, EDF , Total Énergies, ENGIE, Le Groupe La Poste and BFC Angels, companies structuring the infrastructure essential to the economic development of Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
Thus, with a board of directors exclusively composed of its 5 territorial MEDEFs and its 14 regional member branches, the MEDEF BFC, the leading employers’ organization in BFC, represents 6,000 companies in our region totaling 336,000 employees alone, which is just under half of the private employees in our region.
“We love the train: make us love the SNCF!” : the forum of elected officials from Burgundy-Franche-Comté
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