By Méréva Balin
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May 3, 24 at 8:16 p.m.
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The announcement was made during a press conference organized the day before Labor Day in Rouen (Seine-Maritime): a new stage of the public consultation on the two priority sectionsbetween Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) as well as between Rouen and Barentin (Seine-Maritime), of the new Paris-Normandie line (LNPN) begins on May 6, 2024.
“This stage concerns the routes,” announces SNCF Réseau, the project owner. These meetings with the general public will seek to draw the routes of the future pieces of the LNPN. The chosen route will be subject to a public inquiry in the first months of 2025.”
A first video meeting
It is again in Rouen that the first information meeting will take place, the May 6 from 6 p.m.. The latter can, however, be followed remotely via the LNPN website. Seven other meeting dates have been disclosed, all in Normandy.
There first Ile-de-France meeting will only take place on June 11 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine – dep. 92).
“We are working on the following dates as we go. Two information meetings as well as workshops will take place in Yvelines. We start with Normandy, in June. We will then move on to Île-de-France before a summer break and this stage will end after the summer. »
The project owner insists that these are not “ precise scenarios per square meter » which will be discussed during these discussions.
The Épône-Mézières station district spared
“We only learned about the press conference the day before [le 29 avril] during the overall restitution meeting intended for Yvelin elected officials, we fell out of the wardrobe, says Cécile Zammit-Popescu, president of the Grand Paris Seine-et-Oise urban community. Since the start of the meetings with elected officials, we have been told about refining the route, but the line is still as big as ever. »
The mayor of Meulan-en-Yvelines concedes that the elected officials of the region were listened to and obtained some concessions. The two bypass loops around Épône–Mézières and Aubergenville were abandoned in favor of a route following the A13 to the north. Excellent news for the mayor of Épône, Ivica Jovic.
“The entire future station district is spared. I still asked the question of the volume of agricultural land impacted by this choice without obtaining an answer. They say that it will depend on public consultation. We are therefore in the dark until September. »
Fears around the Aubergenville industrial zone
In Aubergenville, Mayor Gilles Lécole is not angry. “The project to move the Montgardé clinic was aborted by the LNPN even though it made it possible to expand the healthcare offering while improving the attractiveness of the municipality,” he explains. We learned today that the line will not be able to pass on the plot concerned due to the presence of high voltage lines. »
The councilor’s fears now focus on the industrial zone of the municipality.
“Some of the 55 companies present there want to expand. I don’t know what to answer them today. We have already lost a big industry with the reconversion of the Renault factory in Flins. We cannot be asked to provide housing and develop economic attractiveness with this line which will tear the town apart. »
The former train driver adds to the potential nuisance caused by the future LNPN: the noise of trains traveling at 250 km/h, the impact on the water table going as far as La Défense or even the “pharaonic cost” of the project during a period of State budgetary difficulties. Only the creation of a new station in Rouen finds favor in his eyes, the existing one being “a railway aberration for 100 years. » “The Yvelines have nothing to gain from this project,” he assures. This solution will only disfigure the Seine valley. »
Île-de-France maintains its conditions
In a separate press release, the Île-de-France Region recalls its three conditions for financing 17% of the cost of studies prior to the public inquiry, i.e. 23.8 million euros in total.
Its participation “is conditioned on three factors: that a extension scenario of the underground sectionnot (going today from Nanterre to Orgeval – Editor’s note), that the freight service is not to the detriment of travelers […] and that the project allows the maintenance of Normandy train stops at Mantes-la-Jolie as well as Bonnières-sur-Seine and Rosny-sur-Seine. »
Speaking of “a unsaleable project in Yvelinois », Cécile Zammit-Popescu considers that the phase which is coming “is more about information than consultation, everything is already folded and decided. »
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