- "The launch of the works will be done without delay according to the principles of an exemplary site and respecting the sanitary conditions imposed by the Covid", reacted by press release SA Gare du Nord 2024.
- The announcement did not arouse great enthusiasm from the side of the town hall of Paris.
- The City of Paris must detail "the points that constitute red lines in the project" during a press conference on Wednesday.
Will the dispute surrounding the Gare du Nord renovation project harden? In a tweet retweeted himself by Anne Hidalgo, the first deputy mayor of Paris Emmanuel Grégoire reacted vigorously to the announcement Tuesday of the green light from the State to the commercial aspect of the transformation project of the Gare du Nord: “The government has just invented a Notre-Dame-des-Landes in the heart of Paris. I wish her a lot of political and legal courage. "
Ile-de-France regional prefect Michel Cadot officially announced Tuesday that he had signed the building permit, with an "objective of delivering the works necessary for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games", according to a press release.
"The State goes against the needs of the inhabitants"
"The launch of the works will be done without delay according to the principles of an exemplary site and respecting the sanitary conditions imposed by the Covid", reacted by a press release SA Gare du Nord 2024, "confident about respecting the schedule".
But the announcement did not arouse great enthusiasm from the side of the town hall of Paris. "The state goes against the needs of residents and transport users and despises the choice of voters in the Ile-de-France," for example thundered on Twitter the mayor of the 10th arrondissement, Alexandra Cordebard, announcing that the "mobilization" of the municipal team "[would continue] against this excessive project".
By issuing the building permit for the #GareDuNord project, the State goes against the needs of the inhabitants as well as the transport users and scorns the choice of voters in Ile-de-France. Our mobilization continues against this disproportionate project.
- Alexandra Cordebard (@ACORDEBARD) July 7, 2020Renowned architects oppose this renovation
The City of Paris, which must detail "the points that constitute red lines in the project" during a press conference on Wednesday, had initially supported this renovation. It then judged the project too commercial, carried by a joint venture created by SNCF Gares & Connexions and Ceetrus, the real estate company of Auchan.
It plans in particular the construction of shops, offices and cultural facilities within the first station in Europe, 155 years old and frequented by 700,000 travelers every day, a figure that is set to increase.
The project, valued at 600 million euros, was also criticized by some 20 renowned architects, including Jean Nouvel and Roland Castro, who deemed the initial project "unacceptable" and "pharaonic", in a column published in Le Monde at the beginning of September, asking that it be "completely redesigned".
"A project contrary to ecological requirements"
In his press release, the prefect of Ile-de-France Michel Cadot argued that "SNCF Gares & Connexions and the company" Gare du Nord 2024 "have made 13 commitments aimed at ensuring good integration of the renovated station in the district" , notably via “the creation of a large bicycle parking lot”, “launching studies to improve access to the station from the north” or even “taking into account the redevelopment of the underground parking lot” to “free up the forecourt of the drop-off station ”.
In addition, it is planned to "strengthen the environmental quality of the project by increasing the planted areas and by reusing rainwater", further argues Michel Cadot.
But in its press release, the city of Paris castigated a project "contrary to the ecological and urban requirements carried by the newly elected Parisian executive", and called to continue discussions "in order to reconsider this project in depth to make it viable and acceptable "
For his part Serge Rémy, from the association “Retrouvons le Nord de la Gare du Nord” which mobilizes against the SNCF and Ceetrus project, drew a parallel with the green ambitions of the new government: “While the Climate Convention defends a new economic model more sober and less commercial, the State delivers a building permit which gives the keys of the North station to Auchan during 46 years to install a huge zone of shops.
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- Anne Hidalgo
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