One month after the flight of an internal note in Bercy which was a first alert, because there was a question of reconsidering several major rail projects in France, we learn that the infrastructure guidance council was given until December to decide the fate of the LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse line (GPSO).
Against the background of the plane of rigor presented in mid-July by François Bayrou, and which could result in 2026 by a cup of almost 44 billion euros in the budget of France, the penalty state therefore does not refrain from returning to its commitments. And to say to the Occitans, about the train which must place the Capitol at 3:10 a.m. from the capital, that it will be replaced by a penalty of savings …
While last week, administrative justice rejected the appeals filed against the financing plan of the GPSO line, thus confirming the solidity of the project, we suddenly returned as before March 14, 2022, that is to say in a tunnel whose end is moving away. That day, considered as “historical” By all the supports of the LGV, Jean Castex then Prime Minister, publicly announced the financial participation of the State up to that of the twenty-five local authorities concerned. He also placed this infrastructure “On the rails, irreversibly”. Undoubtedly this native of the Gers, elected rural in Catalonia and a fine connoisseur of the effects of the landcase on Gascogne and the rest of Occitania, he believed in his promise when under his impulse, the TGV file in Toulouse is reappeared on the top of the battery.
But the promises engaging as often only those who believe them, we meet three years later about the high -speed train like the inhabitants of the southern Tarn with the A69 motorway.
In both cases, it is always the same scenario that happens.
-A failing state or clientelist in the first place, which makes alms, when it does not refuse the ex-noon transport infrastructure which it has financed in other regions.
– opponents whose ideology must then prevail over any other consideration of economic development, regional planning or demography. They sometimes live on the other side of the country, but dream for us of a “southwest farm” cut off from everything. One of the main reproaches made to the LGV relates to the artificialization of 5,000 hectares of land, as if the survival of the second region of France in area, with its 85 inhabitants in km2, depended on it …
Residents of Occitania, finally, left for the often. Betrayed by Girondin neighbors forgetful of the 423 million euros paid in 2008 by the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council for the Tours-Bordeaux section, in exchange for a reciprocal effort for the Toulouse-Bordeaux link, they are now afraid of the state abandonment in the countryside.
The worst is not certain, but if it occurs, no doubt we will tell us, all shame drunk and for any account balance, that here more than elsewhere, happiness is in the meadow …