Storm on Mont Sainte-Odile, a spiritual high place (753 meters) in Alsace.
“We don't want this project to distort this religious site,” says Roland Storck, president of the Nature et vie association.
Like two other collectives, Safeguarding the Mont Sainte-Odile massif and Chaudron des initiatives, it has just launched a petition to oppose the cable car project carried by the communities of municipalities of Barr, Obernai and Rosheim (Bas -Rhine).
“We agree with them, we must reduce the number of 300,000 cars that go up each year to Mont Sainte-Odile. It is on the solution that our points of view differ because we do not want a cable car, ”says Roland Storck. While this file is under study, these associations ensure that the local communities wish to create cable cars connecting Saint-Nabor, at the foot of the sanctuary to Mont Sainte-Odile to transport visitors there.
“It's ecological nonsense, because if the goal is to limit car traffic, it will still be necessary to create a huge parking lot at the bottom of the cable car.
In addition, the installation of pylons in the middle of the Vosges forest will require deforestation ”, annoys the president of“ Nature et Vie ”.
On the other hand, it supports the commissioning of shuttles making the round trip between the plain and the Mont.
“In any case, the road exists and it will not be removed.
The diocese of Strasbourg, owner of the abbey, and the municipalities are just looking for a new source of funding with their cable cars, which will be chargeable, ”says Roland Storck.
The petition has already collected just over 3,500 signatures.