It was a crimson line within the form of a camel’s hump that sparked an outcry within the Massif Central. The route chosen by the SNCF for its new TGV linking Bordeaux to Lyon goes all the best way to Massy (Essonne), bypassing a whole space already very poorly served by rail. Announced by a leak within the native press in November, the choice, confirmed by the SNCF, opened a gulf of incomprehension and anger.
“We have the impression of being erased from the railway map of France”, protests Valérie Simonet, president (Les Républicains, LR) of the Creuse division. “This route is unnatural”reacts Marie-Françoise Fournier, mayor (with out label) of Guéret, who says “ulcerated”. More reasonable, the mayor (LR) of Vichy (Allier), Frédéric Aguilera, says “not understanding the obsession with bypassing the Massif Central”. From Creuse to Allier, as in Corrèze and Puy-de-Dôme, the networks of elected officers and person associations have made their voices heard in order to not be thought-about as “insignificant people”. Petitions, motions voted on in municipal councils and departmental assemblies, letters of protest addressed to the Minister of Transport, interpellation of the federal government within the National Assembly, and so forth.
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