Jean-Michel Aulas’ megatunnel venture, image of a really divided marketing campaign | EUROtoday

Pragmatism or businessism? Jean-Michel Aulas’ flagship proposal to construct a megatunnel beneath the town of Lyon provokes probably the most contrasting reactions and illustrates the divide within the Lyon municipal marketing campaign, crystallized round two fashions of society.

Candidate for mayor of Lyon, the previous businessman introduced, in the beginning of January, this 8-kilometer venture, linking the municipalities of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune (Rhône) to Saint-Fons (Rhône), from the northwest to the southeast of the Lyon metropolitan space. For him, the development of this underground route would lastly put an finish to the everlasting congestion of the tunnel beneath Fourvière, which sees a mean of 110,000 automobiles go per day, of which roughly 15% are in transit.

His proposal summarizes his systematically essential imaginative and prescient of the environmentalist majority in Lyon. His denunciation of the site visitors jams attributable to street works helped launch his candidacy. According to Mr. Aulas, the tunnel might enhance the movement of automotive site visitors. This is totally supported by her ally Véronique Sarselli, Les Républicains (LR) candidate for the Lyon Metropolis. “The car is not going to disappear with the wave of a magic wand”justified the mayor of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Rhône), throughout a joint convention devoted to move, Monday January 19.

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