“We are going to add the name of Gérard Collomb to the Gare de Vaise metro station,” announced Bruno Bernard, president of the Lyon metropolitan area, this Monday morning, in the preamble to the metropolitan council. Since the death of the city’s former mayor on November 25, the community and its population “shared the need for a place to bear his name”, said the elected official. on social networks.
“The possibilities were numerous as he marked places in our metropolis and the city of Lyon,” he added. The choice finally fell on the 9th arrondissement after discussing it with his wife Caroline Collomb, “who validated” this option. The neighborhood was “one of the common threads” of Gérard Collomb’s life: “It is there that he launched his political career and it is there where his political action was probably the strongest, the most impactful and the most constant,” added Bruno Bernard. The name change will be carried out from the beginning of 2024.
Last week, the town of Rillieux-la-Pape decided to name its future esplanade after the former mayor of Lyon, as recalled BFM TV.