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RER in the provinces: the hassle of commuters soon throughout France?

2022-11-27T19:56:52.809Z


TRIBUNE - Emmanuel Macron wants to develop an RER network in the ten main French cities. The essayist Thomas Morales* sees it as a final blow on motorists and against a certain provincial way of life.


*Thomas Morales is the author, in particular, of “Praise of the car.

Defense of an endangered species” (Éditions du Rocher, 2018), and “My last session: Marielle, Broca and Belmondo” (Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2021).

Latest book published: "And now, here comes a long winter" (Éditions Héliopoles, 2022).

The hypothetical deployment of future RER in ten major cities makes me think of this old sea serpent that was for many years the impossible renaissance of the top of the range in the French automobile industry.

A way to divert attention, a dodging that does not lack salt when you see the deplorable state of the Ile-de-France network.

Users at the end of their tether, overcrowded trains, growing insecurity, intolerable waiting times, widespread stagnation, a slowly drifting public service that makes us citizens who have become immobile doubt the validity of environmentally responsible public policies.

Since the start of the school year in September, Parisians…

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Source: lefigaro

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