Without officially announcing the department seems to classify a record which, in recent months, "he put forth more brakes. Funding, attendance, speed, mix ... Chronicle of a programmed death.
Tonight 20 hours at the ballroom of Druillat in Ain, the group Stop LGV is organizing a major meeting between the stakeholders in the southern branch of the Rhine-Rhone: elected officials and associations the three provinces visited (01, 39, 71).
Reseau Ferre de France (RFF) has declined the invitation for reasons of scheduling, which is a shame. Where are we, knowing that the technical committee December 13 called for further studies modal and attendance? What time, strokes, could be considered? How to oppose it and who will pay? All these questions should be discussed tonight.
"Tell them not to dig too much head to see if the TGV pass above, below, east, west ... The southern branch will not happen." The award came from a source close to the ministry. That the "off", nothing official, but the state seems to prepare a first-class burial. "The southern branch is registered to the national infrastructure transport, "said Thierry Mariani firm. And yet ...
The news is not a scoop. For several months the folder slows more he put forth "in the words of Bruno Flourens, the Rhone-Alpes regional director of RFF in person. As we have already written (our edition of 21 September), the southern branch derailed four major obstacles.
1) Funding. Rated at 3.5 billion euros constant. It's huge, especially between the state and communities RFF, nobody's encrypted participation.
2) Attendance. Estimated 830,000 passengers per year and more. Is small. In these circumstances, the cost is exorbitant and profitability impossible.
3) Speed. 270 km / h north of Bourg, 220 south. It's slow for a high speed train which, according to opponents, would win only ten minutes between Lyon and Dole.
4) The mixed freight / passenger. RFF has made it his credo. This option is now demolished. Question of elementary physics, it is difficult to travel on the same route freight trains and TGV without slowing them.
In these So why not start from scratch? Study a new southern branch specifically dedicated to passenger and cargo leaving the lines of the Bresse and Dombes? That is what needs include the Franche-Comte and SNCF.
Unlikely, for the simple reason that from now on, the preference seems to Paris-Orleans-Clermont-Lyon, POCL. The project is not yet launched. It will cost (very) expensive and will take longer than ten years before we see the end of the tunnel. It is unclear RFF lead the State through the two front yards, much less finance.
One day perhaps? "To say today that between Lyon and Strasbourg there will be no long-term bond would be a strategic mistake "says the mayor of Bourg and vice-chairman Jean-François Regional Debate. A very long time in twenty, thirty years or indefinitely. To the south branch of the Rhine-Rhone, time does not count.
Marc Dazy - The Progress of 28/01/2010
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