By Denis Lherm – [email protected]
Published on 06/04/2022 at 5:04 p.m.
Updated on 06/04/2022 at 7:11 p.m.
The Stop LGV collective demonstrated in front of the Saint-Jean station this Saturday, June 4 against “an outdated project”, while, according to him, it is the network of regional express trains that must be developed
Opponents of the high-speed line project (LGV) between Bordeaux and Toulouse / Dax demonstrated this Saturday on the forecourt of Saint-Jean station. “This project is useless and destructive, explained the Stop LGV collective, for everyday transport. It just saves 21 minutes on Bordeaux-Toulouse, at a cost of 14 billion euros. Socially speaking, high-speed lines only concern a small part of the population. We defend the development of regional express trains, especially around Bordeaux. This project is outdated, it is in the cult of speed, it is not rooted in the environmental crisis. Contrary to what Alain Rousset (president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, editor’s note) says, this project is not at all ecological: it leads to the production of greenhouse gases and the concreting of exceptional sites “
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“A very political question”
Several local elected officials gave their support to the demonstrators. Like LFI MP Loïc Prud’homme, campaigning: “Nobody needs this line, at least not the majority of the population, who rather need daily trains. It’s a very political question: rather than allowing 3 or 5% of the population to save half an hour on Bordeaux-Toulouse, should we not allow 20 or 30% of the population to leave their car for get on a TER? “.
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For the regional councilor Karfa Diallo (EELV), “It is an expensive project economically and ecologically dangerous. We are in a very hard social crisis, I do not see the government spending 14 billion to gain 30 minutes between Bordeaux and Toulouse”. Former NPA presidential candidate, Philippe Poutou evokes “An emblematic struggle, which shows that the environmental discourse does not weigh against financial logic”. Vice-president EELV of the Department, Romain Dostes estimates that it is necessary “to direct the 14 billion on a powerful RER Girondin. Funding from the Departmental Council goes towards these lines which complement the RER around Bordeaux. »
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