Pascal Charmot, the LR mayor of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, on the set of 6 minutes flat in March 2022.
The mayor of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune is not satisfied with the scenario chosen by Sytral for the West Lyon Express Tramway. He goes so far as to assert that “stopping the project was preferable“.
The day after the presentation of the route of the express tramway in western Lyon by Sytral and its president Bruno Bernard, the LR mayor of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune displayed his dissatisfaction with the solutions adopted. The councilor at the head of a town which will benefit from two tram stops and whose inhabitants will be able to get to Confluence in less than fifteen minutes goes so far as to assert that “stopping the project was preferable to forced progress“.
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“The project, whatever the surface scenario, will not be able to integrate into the city.”
According to Pascal Charmot, who would have liked the tramway to be buried in his commune, the integration of the latter from Alaï to the tunnel, which will thus pass through avenue Charles de Gaulle, is not satisfactory, even if there is no track traffic is eliminated, a fear he expressed during the consultation. Around fifteen houses and some farm land will indeed have to be razed, which shows according to Pascal Charmot that “the project, whatever the surface scenario, will not be able to integrate into the city”.
On the side of the environmentalist majority, it is said that these homes were in any case likely to evolve in the coming years with the densification of the town, inevitable due to the arrival of a strong public transport line. Anticipating a new attack from a mayor who is closely interested in the Metropolis of Lyon with a view to the 2026 elections, Bruno Bernard launched Monday during the presentation of the project: “The mayor’s concerns about the project’s impact on traffic are no longer justified. We found a solution so that there is consensus… Beyond political games.“
