A TGV connecting Paris to Bordeaux (illustration). – UGO AMEZ / SIPA
- Jean Castex has just confirmed that the State will inject 4.1 billion euros in the high-speed line between Bordeaux and Toulouse.
- This formalization comes three days after the “rant” of Carole Delga (PS) and Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR).
- The president of the Occitanie region and the mayor of Toulouse were offended after the announcement of the financing of a new line between Marseille and Nice, whose file is much less advanced.
The high-speed line (LGV) connecting Bordeaux to Toulouse and putting the Pink City just over three hours from Paris has never been so well on board.
Jean Castex has just promised by mail that the State will quickly put its hand in the pocket.
This announcement comes after the anger expressed on Sunday, and together, by Carole Delga, socialist president of the Occitanie region and Jean-Luc Moudenc, LR mayor of Toulouse and president of the metropolis. The two elected officials had just discovered that the State would largely finance the New Provence – Côte d’Azur Line (LNPCA, between Marseille and Nice), much less technically advanced than the long awaited Grand Sud-Ouest Railway Project (GPSO), which also includes the rapid connection between the Gironde capital and Dax. The Bordeaux-Toulouse LGV has been declared of public utility in particular since 2016 and the population has been consulted in this specific context. Not the LNPCA.
A petition launched on Monday
In summary, Carole Delga and Jean-Luc Moudenc, relayed since Monday by a petition launched by the regional daily La Dépêche du Midi, firmly asked the government to “guarantee territorial equity”. Message therefore received with this letter from Jean Castex dated Tuesday, April 27 and arrived this Wednesday at the two elected. The Prime Minister therefore confirms “a State commitment of 4.1 billion euros [hors branche Bordeaux-Dax] ”, That is to say as much as the financing of the local authorities concerned, and that he will ask the European Union to contribute up to 20%.
Jean Castex is also committed to giving the legislative tools to the communities so that they can create “a local public financing company”, to raise the funds concerning the large part which they will have to discharge themselves.
“After years of mobilization, it is with great satisfaction for our territory and the inhabitants that we welcome the commitments of Jean Castex, reacted in a joint press release Carole Delga and Jean-Luc Moudenc. This result is the fruit of important work and of bringing together, across political divisions ”