2023-11-30 21:24:49
If nothing will have changed in the arrangement of the metropolitan council this Friday, December 1, its governance has undergone a notable evolution. And if a symbol was needed, the GPSO (Great South-West Project) deliberation will be defended by Christophe Duprat, the LR mayor of Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc. History will record that this project to extend the LGV line to Toulouse and Dax was the venom of the social-ecologist majority. These two had pushed the Metropolis into the era of majority governance – by putting aside the right-wing mayors –, the day following the municipal elections…
If nothing will have changed in the arrangement of the metropolitan council this Friday, December 1, its governance has undergone a notable evolution. And if a symbol was needed, the GPSO (Great South-West Project) deliberation will be defended by Christophe Duprat, the LR mayor of Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc. History will record that this project to extend the LGV line to Toulouse and Dax was the venom of the social-ecologist majority. These two had pushed the Metropolis into the era of majority governance – by putting aside right-wing mayors – the day following the municipal elections. And then the LGV came to crystallize the antagonism of the partners on the notion of progress. A fascinating debate which, in the Metropolis, clashes with practice: its role is to lead public policies, in this case, transport.
Assessment of operations: in recent weeks, the right has returned to the game, gleaning eight delegations in the process, including that of the GPSO. “An episode managed and digested,” indicates Clément Rossignol Puech, EELV mayor of Bègles and vice-president in charge of transport. We agreed to disagree. There is a convinced and respectful debate on the LGV within the majority. This does not call into question our collective results, any more than our projects. »
This Friday’s session will see the political balance shaken up. Environmentalists will vote once morest. Socialists and communists will vote in favor of the GPSO deliberation, with the support of elected officials from the center and the right. But not all ! Franck Raynal, Mayor Horizons of Pessac (and elected officials from Pessac) like Senator Nathalie Delattre (Radical Party), opposed to the project, will speak out once morest it.
Railway stopper
Of course, the debate will turn on the advisability of an extension of the LGV. Too bad if it is a technical deliberation. It records the entry of Grand Dax into the GPSO financing company, as well as the contribution of the Metropolis to the project: 354 million (8.9 million per year) earmarked exclusively for the AFSB (Railway developments south of Bordeaux). The idea is to break the rail traffic jam south of Bordeaux by creating a third track between Bègles and Saint-Médard-d’Eyrans. And a fourth track avoidance at stopping points or railway stations (Bègles, Villenave, Cadaujac, Saint-Médard-d’Eyrans). An essential project for the deployment of the metropolitan RER. And to the LGV. Subtlety of size contained in this deliberation: in the event of budgetary slippage, the community will only take responsibility for those of the AFSB, not those of the LGV.
It is precisely the fact of linking the AFSB to the financing company of the LGV which explains why the ecologists and the metropolitan socialists threw plates in each other’s faces. On the other hand, they are all in line with the need to blow up the railway traffic jam.
Moratorium
All ? Well no. This is the twist of the last forty-eight hours. The 104 metropolitan elected officials received a letter signed by eight Girondin parliamentarians who request a moratorium on the AFSB, the work of which (1 billion euros) must begin in January. They express “serious doubts as to the real usefulness of AFSBs”. And highlight documents sent by SNCF Réseau (1) saying that existing routes might absorb the increase in traffic (RER, TGV, freight). More surprising, the letter is signed by the MoDem deputy Sophie Mette, the Insoumis Loïc Prud’homme, the senator Nathalie Delattre, the socialist senators Laurence Harribey and Hervé Gillé, the LR Florence Lassarade and the environmentalist senator Monique de Marco. “I don’t have a definitive opinion on the subject. Given the amounts involved, and what the studies say, we need to give ourselves time and not rush,” notes environmentalist MP Nicolas Thierry, also a signatory.
“We are delighted that parliamentarians are interested in the subject, but we have been talking regarding it for more than ten years! It is the alliance of the carp and the rabbit. This little world is discovering new virtues. They are offering themselves a safe pass for their electorate,” squeaks Christophe Duprat. An elected metropolitan environmentalist admits “having fallen out of his chair”. The initiative caused a stir in the ranks of the Metropolis. Alain Anziani, its president, sees this initiative as “electoral opportunism. We will not be able to create a metropolitan RER without developments in the south. There have been numerous studies, two declarations of public utility. I am surprised that parliamentarians do not understand that this work is essential to the mobility of Girondins.”
(1) SNCF Réseau contests the reading of the documents transmitted by it to parliamentarians. And reaffirms that AFSBs are essential to increase TGV, daily train and freight services.
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