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BIen certain, there are the low-emission zones (ZFE) that are the topic of passionate debates throughout the territories and, nowadays, on the benches of the Assembly. With rurality as soon as once more impacted by a type of discrimination in opposition to those that should go to city or to the agglomeration communities behind the wheel of autos which have exceeded the “expiration date”.
But, even when rural persons are not all geared up with out of age, simply as they don’t all stay close to the metropolises involved, this legislative episode has made it attainable to evoke the important hyperlink which unites the automotive to those that haven’t any different technique of transport to maneuver.
To take the measurement of this downside, for instance, for instance, it’s essential to go to Nasbinals, to the Aubrac plateau, in Lozère, the place the one who should move his driving license should carry out, a minimum of and out of winter interval, thirty-five minutes of journey to discover a driving faculty, whether or not in Espalion, Marvejols or Saint-Chély-d’Apcher. Quite just because there isn’t a public transport more likely to transport, a minimum of as soon as a day and furthermore outdoors working hours, the youth wishing to amass its independence of journey.
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Once the dear sesame has been obtained, with many solicitations with a number of mates and different associated folks, it’s a must to trip and roll so much to discover a job, go to work, do your procuring, deal with your self, research, push the door of administrations, distract your self, have your automobile repaired and, each night, irrespective of how lengthy it does, return residence.
To defend the precept of ZFEs, Agnès Pannier-Runacher lately declared: “The least rich, they do not have a car, are those who are the least equipped. The Minister of Ecology should reconsider her remarks. Because, beyond knowing who can have a vehicle according to its means, it is also necessary to ask the question of the adaptation of public transport to the daily life of those who live isolated within rural areas.
A survey published by Secours Catholique in April 2024 tells us that, in our campaigns, 10 % of households do not have access to the car and depend on an association or their loved ones for their trips. While those who have a vehicle devote more than 20 % of their budget to this means of transport. With, for 13 million rural people, 33 % more trips compared to the average of the French. According to a study carried out by the Terram Institute and Avenirs Chemins, the monthly transport budget for young rural people would amount to an average of 528 euros (including 461 euros for the personal vehicle), against 307 euros for young urban people.
70 % of young rural people depend on the car
So, of course, some evoke less expensive or more virtuous means of displacement, knowing that, when 15 small degrees run below zero and the signs are starting to form on kilometers, it is still quite perilous to circulate by bike or scooter. Just as it is necessary to be wary of the autonomy of electric vehicles when there is no terminal to recharge on your career and the distance to be carried out does not allow negligence or forgetting.
In an attempt to remedy these situations, certain communities, such as in Occitania, boast the merits of the bus or train to one euro. A lure for those who have been in the platform for years with the railway which has lost 10 % of its network in ten years and whose punctuality is still as random. As for the buses, they do not meet the needs of a rurality tired by completely unsuitable frequencies and meshes as soon as we move away from the prefectures, the example of nasbinal being, of course, duplicable from Aubrac to the Pyrenees.
Result of the races, 70 % of young rural people depend on the car, compared to 30 % of urban people, with a real impact on their school, professional, social, sporting, cultural activities. Ditto for those who live in white areas and do not have internet access. Without forgetting, on the other side of the chronometer, those who arrive at the end of their age, sick and confronted with the extension of medical deserts.
These are the questions that those who, instead of helping the rural people, imagine imagine ubiquitous laws. These laws which, like that concerning areas with low emissions, could, de facto, Hold them at a distance from urban centers. A recurring concern that suffers from a political denial and contributes to impoverishment as well as to the fracture of the territories. With an aging of the population increasingly concerned by medical isolation and young people who, when they decide to stay in the country, must consent to financial sacrifices, mortgage their time and, sometimes, renounce the services and services that arouses the evolution of our societies.
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So sure, no matter those that, from Paris, resolve for many who haven’t any toubib of their village, employer, grocery store, cinema, or administration close by, the automotive, for rural folks, is just not a selection of a selection, however somewhat of a necessity.
Jean-Paul Pelras, journalist and writer of a number of works, Mediterranean-Roussillon prize and Alfred Sauvy Prize, has simply printed “the peasant sacrifice-in 20 years, French farmers will have disappeared”, at Erick Bonnier editions.
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