Laura Laplaud 8:49 a.m., November 29, 2022, modified at 8:55 a.m., November 29, 2022
The Head of State announced on Sunday that he wanted to provide ten French cities with an RER network based on the Ile-de-France model.
But how to finance such a project?
Fabien Roussel, Secretary General of the French Communist Party, guest of Europe Matin on Tuesday, returns to the subject.
Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday that he wanted to develop daily RER-type rail transport in 10 French cities in order to promote ecological transition.
"The RER is not just in Paris," he pleaded on Sunday.
A good thing for the secretary general of the French Communist Party (PCF) Fabien Roussel who believes that the head of state has "turned his jacket".
"When I hear Mr. Macron, he who created the Macron cars in 2018, that we need fewer cars and more RER, he has changed, he has turned his jacket around but so much the better, he puts it in the right direction “, he quipped at the microphone of Europe 1 on Tuesday.
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The idea is to allow "large French metropolises today congested", "people who have commuter journeys" to do them without a car "by decarbonizing their journeys thanks to these metropolitan RERs", specified the President of the Republic. .
Based on the model of Ile-de-France, this RER network could be developed in Bordeaux, in Lille, believes Fabien Roussel while recalling that the vagueness around the financing of such infrastructures remains and worries.
"It is not up to local communities and businesses to bear all of these costs, the State must make an effort", he insisted at the microphone of Europe 1.
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