Barely elected and already scratchy. In an interview with La Stampa ten days ago, the EELV mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, said all the bad things he thought about the Lyon-Turin high-speed rail line, the work of which started two years ago and half. "You shouldn't insist on a wrong project ," he said. It's the worst choice. It is necessary to stop the LGV " , developing his arguments a few lines later: " If we value it, the existing line is sufficient. "
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Immediately, the intergovernmental commissioner in charge of Lyon-Turin, Paolo Foietta, severely tackled him: "It is surreal that the first proposal of a mayor who calls himself an ecologist is to condemn transport between France and Italy to the weight heavy and highways. " For its part, the Transalpine Committee which defends the LGV on the French side recalls that the current line cannot, for safety reasons, run more trains than at present (54).
Thirty years since this project started
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