Opponents of the LGV in the Landes could call Alain Rousset to account this Thursday in Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse. The president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region is traveling to the headquarters of the Maremne Adour Côte Sud community of communes to attend the vote on the financing of the High Speed Line. Routes between Toulouse and Bordeaux then Bordeaux and Dax, for which MACS could release an envelope of 10 million euros over 40 years.
Alain Rousset must listen to voters, opponents and open his eyes
A High Speed Line project that has been making a lot of noise for several years. But for Eliane Pibouleau-Blain, member of insubordinate France, this LGV was a thing of the past. It is the president of New Aquitaine who unnecessarily puts the subject back on the table. “Alain Rousset wanted to highlight this mothball project after the 2015 public inquiry. It is an expensive project that does not meet the expectations of the territory.”
For this activist, also a member of Attac (the Association for the taxation of financial transactions and for citizen action), the LGV in the Landes is a proposal from another time and the proposal of the community of common Maremne Adour Côte Sud is an aberration. “There has been a huge amount of work by environmental defense associations. And all the conclusions prove that the subject is useless. The inhabitants will realize that their house is on the route and that we need agricultural land to s This is a project that is not democratic. The population had rejected it. So we say “beware of the responsibility of elected officials” when they decide to co-finance the project.”
For elected officials, it’s very easy to spend taxpayers’ money
For France Insoumise, the Region’s arguments to justify the start of a High Speed Line are debatable : “The first is the saturation of the existence line. The SNCF clearly says, in writing, that this is not true. The other argument is the removal of the truck walls. Indeed, it is a nuisance. But trucks on the railroad are not up to Alain Rousset. Then no intermediate town is opened up by such a project. High-speed trains are made to go fast. And if they stop at Mont-de-Marsan or Dax, there is no more high speed!”, annoyed the Landes activist before adding, “They have nothing to gain for the MASC by investing in the LGV. On the other hand, it will destroy an entire heritage, from forest to agricultural land, inhabitants will be expropriated. And who will pay? It’s us! This is not Alain Rousset! For elected officials, it is very easy to spend taxpayers’ money.”
Arguments that a collective of associations would like to whisper again and again in the ear of the president of the region this Thursday just before the vote of the community of commune. _”What we are saying is that it is not normal for Alain Rousset to lie. Why have we abolished the small lines? Why don’t we do local rail?”_questions the opponent of the project.