- This mega-project for the extension of Charles-de-Gaulle airport plans, in 2037 after opening in 2028, to increase traffic by 35 to 40%.
- A project feared by neighboring mayors who see it as a source of noise and environmental pollution.
- About sixty of them sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron demanding that the project be abandoned.
Turbulence in sight for the T4 terminal project at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Sixty mayors from the north of Ile-de-France gathered at the initiative of Eugénie Ponthier, assistant in charge of Urban Ecology in Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), held this Thursday a press conference in Saint-Denis to make public a letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron and opposing the construction of the T4.
Little reminder for those who were stranded in the metro, we are not talking here of a small building with two or three waiting rooms but of a very large project of 7 and 9 billion euros, which would open in 2028 and would theoretically be completed in 2037. The objective is to welcome 35 to 40 million passengers per year, which is not bad when you know that in 2018, Roissy-CDG had received 72.2 million . What is starting to make people and planes, even if, assures a spokesperson for ADP, "this project will be built on the right of way of the airport, there is no purchase of land nor of expropriation, it is at the heart of the airport right of way ”.
ADP has made its commitments
However, after reporting on the "incessant ballet of planes" and "significant pollution", the letter from the councilors denounces the future "worsening of the situation and a deterioration in the living conditions of the most exposed and vulnerable populations". As a result, the mayors say they cannot "subscribe to this extension project". "What we want is the abandonment for and simple of the project," says Hervé Chevreau, centrist mayor of Epinay-sur-Seine. We can't talk about the environment and sustainable development, and doing such a project is completely opposite! "
To prevent concerns, the ADP group made last May "29 hyper-precise commitments divided into different themes such as noise, health, the environment, employment", details a spokesperson for the company. "Commitments we do not believe, balance Hervé Chevreau. They say it will create 50,000 jobs, that's wrong! It's going to be a job or activity transfer. And these 50,000 jobs, we can create them in our basin without creating an airport, it is enough that the State gives the means to the cities to invest. "
"Behind that, there is the privatization of ADP"
Another point denounced by the letter, the absence of a "real public debate". "This consultation was not for everyone, not for all the cities and departments," added the mayor of Epinay-sur-Seine. For its part, ADP claims to have done much more than necessary. "According to the Environment Code, for there to be a public debate on airport expansion projects, there must be the creation of runways, which is not the case with the T4 project. But as we did not want to do that in our corner, we voluntarily seized the national commission of public debate (CNDP) to organize for 3 months a concertation on this subject, with ten public meetings, 85 events, etc. "
But Hervé Chevreau smelled another wolf. "Behind that, there is the privatization of ADP," he denounces. If you sell ADP as it is today and if you sell it with an additional terminal, the sale is not at the same price. It is not Stéphane Plaza who would say the opposite.
Pending the public inquiry for a single environmental authorization planned for the second half of 2020 and the first picks the following year, the mayors of northern Ile-de-France, joined in the fight by the Paris city hall, are determined. “We will be attentive to everything, promises Hervé Chevreau. We will do everything possible to stop the project, be it amicable or, ultimately, judicial. After EuropaCity, the north of the Ile-de-France is not done with the development battles.
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