The Head of State has speeded up his government and surprised elected officials, while amendment to the finance bill granting 3 billion euros to the rail had been removed from the text by the executive, beginning November.
by Ivanne Trippenbach and Sophie Fay
“We go there.” In a new video, posted Sunday November 27 on social networks, Emmanuel Macron takes up the codes of the Youtubers to answer questions from Internet users called Xefario, Margo or Pat the Nervous. The opportunity for a surprise announcement aimed at the Elysée, “giving an accelerator”. “To hold our ecological ambition, explains the head of state, I want us to have a great national ambition”: to develop a network of RER “in ten French metropolitan areas”. “It is a great objective for ecology, the economy, the quality of life”, projects the President of the Republic, always marked by the memory of the crisis of “yellow vests”, extreme symbol of aspirations in opening up and fed up against the increase in fuel price.
If the idea of investing in the metropolitan rail was being studied, the announcement took the government short. This is the CAP, specifies the Elysée, since it “remains to select the metropolises, the routes and the distribution of funding between the State, the regions and the operators”. In Matignon, the General Secretariat for Ecological Planning had identified around fifteen projects; The effort will therefore relate to the ten priority. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, will be responsible for “piloting these major works”, added in the Elysian entourage.
“It is a project of political magnitude similar to Grand Paris, underlines the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune. Connecting the metropolises and the suburbs, that was not a virgin subject, but the president makes it an orientation important policy. It is concrete, major projects that make you dream. “In the entourage of Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition, we note that” the President makes a good announcement, in total coherence with what the Minister carried during the round table at the Congress of Mayors “.
Some cities are already identified by the executive, such as Lille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon or Marseille. In the evening, the applications of elected officials flowered on social networks. “In Rennes Métropole, we have been ready for a long time to welcome such a project,” tweeted Matthieu Theurier, Vice-President of Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) at the Metropolis of Rennes. “We are ready in Lyon, rejoiced the mayor Eelv Grégory Doucet. It is a policy in the interest of all. Make the train Great Again!” Same enthusiastic signs of Christophe Ferrari, boss of the metropolis of Grenoble, or elected officials from Marseille.
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