As in the Asterix album, a “big ditch” cuts in two the rural commune of Saint-Germain-Des-Prés (Tarn), where the A69 site also divides the spirits before the exam in the Senate of a request for resumption of the work of the disputed highway. In the map shown in the mayor’s office, a large red line cuts the municipal territory. And a few hundred meters from the small town hall attached to the church of the town, the line becomes an abyss of several tens of meters wide, with two batteries of an unfinished bridge in its heart that awaits a third.
“Very impacted”: it is for these two words that Raymond Frede, the mayor of Saint-Germain-Des-De-Prés for 18 years, summarizes the situation of his 950 administered against the A69 site. “The round trip of the trucks, a lot of dust, yes, it is a great restriction, but we do not make an omelet without breaking the eggs,” recalls the mayor without a label, favorable to the road, even if he had preferred a planning of the current national in 2×2 lanes, an abandoned project several years ago.
Loss of customers
Since February 27, the date of a sentence that interrupted the work of the Castres-Toulouse highway, the semi-trained ballet has certainly interrupted, but the site continues to alter the life of the village. “As long as we do not have the bridge, we have a part of Saint-Germain that is isolated,” explains Raymond Frede, the book to allow the road to be currently restored by the site. The inhabitants of “45 houses” of small villages located on one side of the site can no longer cross.
“The boys who worked (on the site, the editor’s note) compensated this loss because they came to eat,” he adds, “but this is double pain since they are no longer there and I still have no way.” “It’s complicated,” said Céline Maurel aboard his car, when he comes to look for his son, a high school student in Castres, at the bus stop between El Nacional and the Site. “You can’t park, there is mud, the crossing is dangerous.”
The arrest of the site is far from calming the spirits in the small town where the project has fallen a “great gap”, metaphor easily taken by the inhabitants, of the homonymous album of Asterix. “We have to, against that; we do not want to talk about that precisely because it creates tensions,” says Céline Maurel, who deals with the Secretariat of the Pétanque Local Association.
“An aberration”
“I have clearly felt neighbors,” says Marie-Claude Amand, withdrew against the road and her “bitumen factory”, the production center coated with hot that would be established in the village cantilever to produce half of the 500,000 tons of the road coating.
Alexandre Lafon, another opponent, talks about “a logic of the old world and the new world” between “those who see that there is a turning point (due to the) climate crisis, that it may be necessary They understand the University of the University and do not understand those who are going to Túlasa “among the Lycee of the University and do not understand the University of the University and do not understand the tunas” between the Lycee of the University and do not understand the University of the University of the University and do not understand those who go to Túlasa “among the Lycee of the University and do not understand the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University of the University. Túlasa “between the Lycee. Toulouse
The opponents and supporters are in the fact that the current status quo is not possible, but their visions of the future continue to diverge. “We cannot keep an open site, not finished bridges, it seems that we are not going to break everything, it would be an aberration,” said the mayor who wants to resume the job, while Lattuca de Marie-Line, opponent, expects an alternative project.
“There have been great minds to conceive this type of pharaonic site, we certainly have great minds that can rebuild all that, remake things,” he hopes that this retiree. In his business, Nadège L’Enicile would like people in any case that people “stop starting.” “My desire? There are solutions and not in ten years.”
Source: BFM TV
