Letter from “24 Heures” readers dated November 27, 2024

Voting

In their arrogance and contempt, our right-wing elites do not accept that the population can think differently from them. For these elites, the Swiss people have only one right: to say yes to what they have decided. And if these people dare to say no, they must be punished.

Following the refusal to expand the highways, the leaders of this right immediately called for sanctions. The president of the UDC invited the Federal Council to reserve the 5 billion francs at stake only for the cantons which voted yes. As for the president of the Center – ex-PDC – he calls for sanctioning the French-speaking and Basel cantons by refusing them any road projects for the next twenty years.

This revanchist conception of democracy, as promoted by the UDC and The Center, is intolerable. She demonstrates unacceptable arrogance and contempt. It is dangerous, because it can only reinforce the feeling that these elites believe themselves above everything. With only one goal in mind: not the good of the country, but power, in the service of their prestige and their personal interests and at the expense of those who elected them.

Claude Curchod, Lausanne

Monde

Daily surveys boast to us of the pleasing progress of the Putinian, Xijinpinian, Modian regimes, and many others, while awaiting the return of the Trumpian. There remain of course, even in the countries of these leaders, some killjoys who continue to criticize the triumph of these policies by claiming that they are hardly favorable to the populations, to democracy nor especially to the exercise of power. intelligence.

In the West, nothing new since the 1980s, when the stunned world lined up under the American standard of the market economy. Let the strongest win, and natural selection will ensure success for all the deserving. As for our Western elites, they renounced the chimeras of humanism a long time ago. Why exercise their duty and their power when the economy constantly lavishes its benefits on us and finance offers its generous solutions to all problems? Have elected politicians therefore become useless? No, since in our democracies, we must camouflage the tricks in legalism. Elected officials are still tolerated to vote on laws dictated by multinationals that are so effective and rewarding.

And we, in all this, have nothing to complain about. Are we not offered the distinct privilege of flourishing in consumption? And above all that of responding to the requests of the multiple charitable works generated by the present situation?

Richard Lecoultre, Rolle

Home support

The door opens and a burst of good humor energizes the place. The Aubonne CMS auxiliaries love their work, it’s obvious. Without them, without them, our mother, suffering from Alzheimer’s (until an advanced stage at the end) and bent by extreme osteoporosis, would not have been able to stay at home until her death. We have seen many auxiliaries working over the last few years: such skills and heart! Ideas and imagination, an ability to collaborate with nannies and family who ensured their presence, understanding in the face of dementia, kindness towards everyone… We can only admire and be grateful.

The auxiliaries pass from one door to another, illness, personality, needs, places each time different, and we nevertheless have the impression that they, that they have always been part of the framework, almost of the family. As for the nurses, directors or telephone operators, we have always been able to communicate with them and find solutions. How they manage to juggle the varied demands of all the beneficiaries and the schedules is a mystery, but it works – moreover, without a constant rotation of speakers.

Let us also mention the mobile psychiatry team for the elderly, CHUV west sector: its two visits were decisive, what intelligence! And how lucky we are in our country!

Philippe, Etienne and Gisèle Urfer, Saubraz

Urban planning

Concerns the article “This is what the face of Place de la Gare will look like… in 2037, if all goes well» (“24 hours” of November 20).

In Lausanne, there will no longer be a passenger station, but a simple station for commuters, like a metro station accessible on foot.

You want to go on a trip, for business or vacation, forget about departing from Lausanne CFF. You will no longer be able to access it with your suitcases, unless you limit yourself to hand luggage or a backpack.

The drop-off and taxis will be on the outskirts of the “Pôle Gare”, several hundred meters from the access to the platforms, “judiciously accessible in complete safety” by various elevators and underground passages.

Welcome to the tourists who will happily disembark at the station of the “Olympic capital”, certainly unaware of the obstacle marathon that will await them.

And too bad for the elderly or those with reduced mobility: but in 2037, they may still have the option of leaving the city by car.

At Place de la Gare, on the other hand, commuters and passers-by will be able, according to the dreams of our authorities, to benefit from a “welcoming and friendly island of freshness”. “Seventy trees will be planted there…” on a large reinforced concrete slab of the “multimodal space” for pedestrians and bicycles which will occupy the entire basement. A bit like the trees that never grew on the Place de la Riponne with its underground parking slab, under renovation these days. And all this for… our well-being.

Ivo Frei, EPFL architect, Lausanne

Yverdon

Concerns the article “Yverdon-les-Bains beach will be redeveloped» (“24 hours” of November 23).

Bravo to the Municipality of Yverdon-les-Bains for thinking about revitalizing the municipal beach for the benefit of swimmers, children and the disabled. But why wait until 2028 to finalize the work? It would certainly be much more sensible to do everything at once in order to keep costs down.

Furthermore, the Municipality has so far refused to extend bus line 605 which serves Collège des Rives and La Marive. Adding a loop to this line would drastically reduce the number of bicycles and especially cars on the beach.

Alain Doll, Yverdon

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