About thirty opponents, from all over Lorraine, had made the journey to ask purely and simply “the complete cessation of this project that undermines the climate, health, democracy, economics, science and turns its back on alternatives. proposals, such as the railway transport. Spokesman of INATN (Intercollectif no to the A31 bis section north), Sophie Delvo insists that this “project is useless and devastating. The State must respect its commitments in terms of ecology, but does not respect none of them. We can’t go on like this, “he said. Patrick Klein, on behalf of Lorraine Nature Environnement, believes for his part that “the problem of the A31 is only the result of a poor anticipation and organization of the mobility of the Lorraine sulcus. Consequently, responding to it with the road solution at the origin of the problem does not respond in any way to the challenges that will come. Worse still, he exacerbates the problems and draws us into a dead end that is neither ecological, nor social, nor financial. Arguments that he then reiterated before the steering committee of the A31 bis, being himself a member of the committee itself, like 4 other representatives of environmental associations. “That’s only 5 seats out of 42”, he complains.
