The little notebooks of the Sète pouffe: a new footbridge but what future for the Sète station?

“Finally !”Poufre would be tempted to say, upon learning that the footbridge at Sète station is about to be inaugurated this Monday. Oh, we’ve been talking to you about it for a while, about this metal step intended to bypass the railway tracks to connect the new north and south forecourts. Cost of the operation: €8 million, including €3.3 million from Sète Agglo. Even saltier than the water in the Aristide-Briand parking lot!

But, at the risk of jumping on the bandwagon a little, the Poufre wonders. What is the point of a footbridge to connect the two forecourts of a station whose long-term future seems to be dotted?

Fewer trains and risk of flooding of the coastal line…

Thanks to the sprawling future Montpellier-Perpignan line project, we learned that Sète could lose two thirds of its TGVs in history. Concretely, going from around nine passages today to possibly three. The chick is strangling!

Worse still, the maps of the Mining Studies Office (BRGM) and the Center for Studies and Expertise on Risks, Environment, Mobility and Development (Cerema), confirm the submergence of the current railway line. – called “coastline” – within a short century.

As for the mayors of the Agglomeration, discussions are going well. They even wrote to Michel Barnier (who has since no longer been Prime Minister) to ask that the project be re-examined. Reworked. Adapted to enable long-term service to the area. And why not reserve land to build a future station. Elsewhere. Certainly not in Sète. So much the worse for the pretty footbridge and for our Poufre Sétois. Already nostalgic at the idea, one day, of no longer hearing the train whistle…