The Toulouse Court admitted validated on Friday, July 25, the Financing Plan for the future High Speed Line (LGV) project in the southwest, on Friday, July 25, particularly Bordeaux in Toulouse and Dax, rejecting the appeals of the environmental associations.
According to the conclusions of the Public Rapporteur, the Administrative Court of Toulouse announces, in a press release, having rejected “the appeals presented by several elected officials, taxpayers and environmental associations, against the financing plan for the realization of the large railway project of the southwest” (GPSO).
Environmental associations, including Friends of the Earth, had challenged the financing plan for this project, estimated at 2020 to 14 billion euros, as well as the deliberations of several local communities that approve their participation in this plan.
Several environmental associations opposed to the project
Therefore, environmental defense associations and Occitanos and new Elected officials of Aquitaine had submitted appeals at the end of June, requesting the cancellation of the GPSO Financing Plan.
At the hearing, on June 27, the lawyer of the applicants, Emmanuel Lavaud, had estimated that the communities “undertake to assume the execution of a project, in this case the GPSO, whatever it costs, that is, in fact, they make a white control in the SNCF.”
For its part, the Court judged “that this financing plan, which has an evaluation nature, does not constitute a contract between legal persons under public law that will be associated with the financing of the GPSO company, but prefigures its agreement,” added the press release.
The southwest LGV must link, in 2032, Toulouse in Paris at 3:10 am, winning an hour on the current route. A branch must gather Dax to Bordeaux in 20 minutes less and, one day, allow direct connections to Spain.
Source: BFM TV
