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In a press release, the Minister of Transport announced, Monday October 16, that the A69 motorway project, between Toulouse and Castres, would come to an end. An announcement that is not to everyone’s taste.
Between Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) and Castres (Tarn)highway works A69 continue and they will go to the end. The news delights some residents of Castres, who learned it on Monday October 16. “We’ve been waiting for it for years. It must“, says a resident. A woman assures that “it will considerably facilitate transport, traffic“. Others are more nuanced. “It’s pretty useless […] for most people. And Then, it’s going to be expensive, 17 euros round tripit’s a lot“, underlines a man.
A great mobilization
The Ministry of Transport announced this in a press release:The State is determined to bring the project to fruition, decided democratically. Friday October 13, the prefects of the department and the region separately received elected officials pro-A69 and associations hostile to the project. “We are not at all surprised by the minister’s reaction. He persists in this forceful passage, while civil society and 2,000 scientists speak out against“, denounces Thomas Digardmember of the La Voie Est Libre collective. Several trees along the route remain occupied to prevent them from being cut down. A major mobilization of opponents is announced for next weekend.