The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Shock wave among Ile-de-France elected officials after the abandonment of T4 at Roissy

2021-02-11T19:43:09.612Z


The announcement of the abandonment of the project for a new terminal for Charles-de-Gaulle airport surprises the political class. Some evoke not


The slap represented by the government announcement of the abandonment of the Terminal 4 (T4) project at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, leaves beautiful marks in the corridors of the departmental council of Seine-et-Marne.

Just a year ago, elected officials and Paris Aéroports signed a five-year agreement so that the development of the platform is in favor of the inhabitants and businesses of the department.

Considered on the territory of the municipality of Mesnil-Amelot, the T4, then inflated even more hopes in terms of attractiveness and tax benefits.

READ ALSO>

Pandemic, ecology, end of business trips ... will the plane recover?


“A postponement, given the context, we would have understood.

But a sudden stop, it is inconceivable, sighs Xavier Vanderbise, vice-president (LR).

Behind the scenes, his colleagues even see it as an opportunistic approach intended to satisfy the green voters in view of the presidential election of 2022.

"45,000 direct jobs to the key"

“However, there are 45,000 direct jobs at stake, regrets President Patrick Septiers (UDI).

We had already planned the infrastructure resulting from the increase in employees and therefore inhabitants, with the construction of colleges and roads.

"And to confirm that the Meaux-Roissy road bar, in progress at a cost of 100 million euros financed by the department and the region, is not called into question.

The department also insists that the project for line 17 of the Grand Paris Express which is to link Saint-Denis to Mesnil-Amelot and was to serve the T4 traffic light is still relevant.

A line today contested for its passage through the fields of the Triangle de Gonesse by opponents who have started to set up an area to defend (ZAD).

READ ALSO>

Abandonment of T4 at Roissy: the train and metro projects to the airport on the hot seat


"With or without Terminal 4, we must continue to improve road and rail access to the airport," said the Minister of Transport on Thursday.

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari reaffirms that the direct Charles-de-Gaulle Express train, scheduled between Roissy and Paris Est in 2025, and metro line 17, between Saint-Denis Pleyel and Le Mesnil-Amelot in 2030, are still on the program, because "disjoint" from the question of T4.

The president of the region, Valérie Pécresse (Libres!) Is on the same line.

Not the mayor of Mitry-Mory, a town bordering the airport, with regard to the CDG Express, which she has already obtained twice the judgment of by the administrative court.

“This announcement comes a few months after the abandonment of the privatization of Paris Aéroports.

Never two without three: it must also mark in my opinion a stop for the CDG Express, in order to concentrate the means towards the lines B, K and 17 as well as the road service ”, claims Charlotte Blandiot-Faride (PCF).

Newsletter The essential of 77

A tour of the news of Seine-et-Marne and the IDF

Subscribe to the newsletterAll newsletters

“The abandonment of T4 is a decision that seems very fair to me,” she continues.

“The news is not at the opening of a new terminal while thousands of jobs are threatened all around.

Paris Airports would do better to concentrate all its efforts to save these jobs rather than invest in a project worth 9 billion euros without visibility on the resumption of the air, ”asserts the elected.

"It is the double penalty for the inhabitants of the agglomeration for whom the social crisis awaits"

The Roissy Pays de France agglomeration community (CARPF), which brings together 37 municipalities straddling Seine-et-Marne and Val-d'Oise, which includes the airport, is a shock.

“We are flabbergasted by this announcement.

A postponement, a resizing, we could have understood it in the current context, but a cancellation, no ”, reacts Pascal Doll (LR), the president of the CARPF.

“Today it is the double penalty for the inhabitants of the agglomeration for whom the social crisis awaits!

The entire Roissy sector has been hit hard and I have no doubt that the recovery will be vigorous.

This is why we must put in place, as of now, strategies so that the airport platform is in a good position in a context of increasing competition with other platforms in Europe and in the world, ”protested the elected inter-municipal councilor.

Source: leparis

All news articles on 2021-02-11

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-27T16:45:54.081Z
News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.