Code name: TGV M. Forty years after the official departure of the first TVG from Gare de Lyon in Paris, Emmanuel Macron returns to the scene this Friday morning to launch the celebrations for this anniversary.
The President of the Republic will unveil for the occasion the TGV of the future, the TGV M, of which we only knew the locomotive until now.
Proof of the importance of the event, he will be accompanied by no less than three ministers: Barbara Pompili (Ecological Transition), Bruno Le Maire (Economy, Finances and Recovery) and Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (Transport).
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A birthday fanfare for the TGV, therefore, still unimaginable a year ago.
At the start of his mandate, Emmanuel Macron committed to no longer launch new high-speed lines, in order to favor everyday transport.
For years, with the TGV, the SNCF and successive governments had been under fire from critics: by betting everything on high speed, the railway company would have, according to its detractors,
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