The Camélat bridge will open Monday afternoon. “At 2 p.m., it should be good,” say those around Jean Dionis. After an inaugural day full of activities, the Camélat bridge and bar will begin to fill their…
The Camélat bridge will open Monday afternoon. “At 2 p.m., it should be good,” say those around Jean Dionis. After an inaugural day full of activities, the Camélat bridge and bar will begin to fulfill their real missions. This Sunday, May 5, only a few hours remained for the technicians to tidy up, clean, and return the work to safety.
After the Prime Minister’s visit, the people of Agene took advantage of the activities, the local producers’ market and the sound and light show which brought together thousands of spectators.
The sound and light brought together many people.
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This Sunday, although fewer in number than the day before, curious people also chose Camélat, the weekend attraction, as a place for a Sunday stroll. The opportunity to approach and familiarize yourself with this section of road which should change the daily lives of many residents, as specified by Jean Dionis, president of the Agglo, at the time of the ribbon cutting on Saturday. “This bridge will make the city breathe, will make our lives easier. That of the Colayracais who are going to go to the Technopôle Agen-Garonne; that of the Foulayronnais who are going to Estillac… Today, it is not the birth of this bridge that we are celebrating, but the re-entry into the professional life of a handsome young man of 30,” he said. underlined alongside Gabriel Attal, who did not fail to point out, with facetiousness, that in 1995, the year when it all began for Camélat, he himself was barely 6 years old… “A bypass was missing by extending the Paris-Limoges-Périgueux-Bergerac-Villeneuve-Agen-Auch-Lourdes-Tarbes route. It is the underlying reason for this project to definitively establish Agen as a crossroads town in the south-west of France. »
A railway bridge in ten years?
While the first car has still not crossed the asphalt of this brand new deck, at the time of his speech, Jean Dionis was already looking at the horizon, announcing the construction of a new bridge, a few meters further, “the little brother which will allow the connection between the Brax-Roquefort LGV station and the Agen city center station. You do not believe in it ? Don’t be like those who didn’t believe in Camélat: you would be wrong! », concluded the president of the Aggloo with a smile.
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