Once, twice and now three.
The departments of Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, the territory of Est Ensemble, Romainville, Noisy-le-Sec and Fontenay-sous-Bois (94) have a lot of ideas when it comes to This is to support at all costs the completion of the extension of the T1 tram line between Noisy-le-Sec and Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne), by 2026.
After an exchange with the Prime Minister's office in October 2020, followed in the wake of an alert letter to the Minister of Transport, the elected officials concerned sent on March 3 a letter in due form to the head of government, Jean Castex.
They confide in him their "surprise" to discover that the credits released within the framework of the recovery plan and the 2021-2022 rider to the previous State-Region plan contract (CPER) "would neither allow nor finance the entire project. , or even all of the first phase of work, ”they say.
"Missed opportunity"
The first phase, the work of which began in 2019, is assessed by the local authorities at “current 390 million euros” and will link Noisy-le-Sec to Montreuil (rue de Rosny).
The additional 53 million registered in the amendment to the CPER "will allow us to finance the work a little longer", underline the communities of 93 and 94. "But the economic recovery that our territories will need so badly will not be satisfied with a half-built tram, ”they warn, asking for new credits.
"It is a missed opportunity to mark a big blow by immediately completing the extension of T1, since everything is ready to do it", regrets Stéphane Troussel, socialist president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis.
“Instead of moving forward all at once, it will be necessary to reopen new discussions to finance phase 2, up to the station of Val-de-Fontenay (Editor's note: estimated at one hundred million euros).
The risk is the interruption of the work.
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"Stop bad faith"
“But we must stop bad faith, annoys Valérie Pécresse, president (Libres!) Of the Ile-de-France region.
Either the elected officials of Seine-Saint-Denis did not understand the Schmilblick, or they are in bad faith!
", She reacts, while she signed this Thursday morning," the regional revival agreement "with the State as well as the framework relating to the orientations of the 2021-2027 plan contract.
“The 2021-2022 amendment for transport should make it possible to accelerate and finish the projects of the current CPER, which is the case for phase 1 of the extension of T1, details Valérie Pécresse.
It was a condition that the state expressly asserted.
Phase 2, for which negotiations have not started at all, is not concerned.
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Very lively, the president of the region continues: “There was a shortfall of 53 million euros for the first tranche, we went to look for them, the region providing 32 million euros.
Funding is being secured to complete the work already launched.
"The elected representative also wishes to reassure her peers from 93 and 94:" Me, I want phase 2 and I had the last board of directors of Ile-de-France Mobilités vote for the studies of the extension to in Fontenay-sous-Bois.
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A structuring axis towards the "2nd station in Ile-de-France"
The mayor of this city precisely, Jean-Philippe Gautrais (Left Front) does not understand this position between the two.
"With this phasing, we will stop the work in the middle of nothing, in Montreuil, while the whole of this project should have been completed more than ten years ago (
Editor's note: the former mayor of Noisy-le-Sec s 'opposed to the first choice of routes, thus delaying the site
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Jean-Philippe Gautrais also recalls the urgency of the situation in terms of travel in eastern Paris: “With 100,000 daily travelers, the Val-de-Fontenay station is the second largest station in Ile-de-France. , outside Paris, behind La Défense, he explains.
It is an important feeder station for people coming from Montreuil, Romainville who currently have no other choice to get there than to pile up on buses.
The inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis will still have to wait while the extension of T1 is a structuring project.
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The extension, which will create 7.7 km of new line, will offer fifteen additional stations and will put Bobigny Pablo-Picasso 35 minutes from Val-de-Fontenay station.
Fifty thousand travelers are expected every day.
State-region planning contract: the 93 wants fairer funding
“We water where it is already raining.
"This is the formula used by Stéphane Troussel, the socialist president of Seine-Saint-Denis to justify" a territorial differentiation "in the part that the local authorities must assume in the financing of the large projects stopped by the contracts of State plan -region (CPER) and in particular for the next one which will cover the period 2021-2027.
"It is essentially the departments that complete the projects undertaken, all in the same way, up to 30%, whatever their social and economic disparities," explains Stéphane Troussel.
And it's not fair to put rich and poor departments on the same level.
When there is a need for an extension cord, the 93 cannot do it and is left with projects that never end.
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Seine-Saint-Denis will be the most assisted department in terms of transport
At the end of December 2020, the community and the three territories of Plaine commune, Est Ensemble and Grand-Paris / Grand-Est sent a letter to the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, asking to change the rules for the CPER 2021- 2027.
“The step is high, explain the elected officials.
Our territories have to manage a social situation and a precariousness of the populations that is beyond comparison with what other regions of the Ile-de-France are experiencing.
"A point of view that does not understand Valérie Pécresse, president (Libres!) Of the Ile-de-France region:" We rarely ask Seine-Saint-Denis to complete at 30%, she guarantees, stressing moreover that this department was rather well served.
“In the 2015-2020 CPER, the projects of 93 represent 22% of the credits of the total envelope devoted to transport.
And in the endorsement, it goes to 30%.
Seine-Saint-Denis will be the most assisted department in terms of transport in the years to come.
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