La Réole station (Gironde) is on the route of the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line. Residents fear for the service to small stations, not to mention career projects.
“After their passage, all that remains are holes filled by the rising water table,” says Hugues Savoye, the president of the association of liquidated Garonnais. � “Where it has been dug, it is irretrievably lost and the earth that has been moved around will be infertile for five to ten years. A mess.”