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The conclusions of the public rapporteur requesting the cancellation of the A 69 construction site continue to provoke reactions. It is the turn of the president of the CCI of Tarn Michel Bossi to express his incomprehension.
“Since the announcement of the conclusions rendered by the rapporteur of the administrative court, the Tarn business leaders are stunned and express to me daily their incomprehension” reacts in turn the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tarn Michel Bossi who speaks of “the astonishment of the economic world in the face of this new rebound” in this construction site of the A69 motorway, intended to connect Castres and Toulouse, “after 40 years of debates, fights and expectations”.
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“How can this project be called into question once again?, asks the president of the CCI following the conclusions of the public rapporteur who requests the cancellation of the environmental authorization by “the absence of a compelling reason of major public interest justifying the exemption for protected species” particularly from an economic and security point of view. How can we ignore the obvious benefits for safety and traffic flow? How to deny that Castres-Mazamet is stalling with alarming economic and social indicators? One of the highest unemployment rates in Occitania. One of the lowest purchasing power. A declining population, 8.3% lower than that of 1975, while that of other medium-sized towns in the region connected to Toulouse by motorway has often doubled. A loss of 1,400 jobs over the last 11 years, in addition to the 10,000 jobs lost in the textile sector 15 years previously.”
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The Toulouse administrative court, which is studying an appeal on the merits filed by opponents, must rule within a week.
