“Those who can, will prefer to use their cars …”, worried Gérald Lebourg a few days before the implementation of the new Citéline network. The elected member of the opposition group of Algrange ( Succeed together ), at the beginning of the petition “against the application of the new transport plan on the Citéline network” , was not mistaken.
From Tuesday morning, the removal of bus lines that until then allowed to reach, from Thionville, the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul high school resulted in a monster traffic jam in the street of the school establishment. A situation, for once, denounced by all the elected officials of Algrange.
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“We are used to network modifications announced in July and August,” recalls Gérald Lebourg. Since 2016, school lines and then Sunday service have been gradually phased out. But this time, the new Citéline transport plan, “dropped without explanation less than two weeks before its implementation”, is fueling the dissatisfaction of users beyond schools and the Cité des quatre mines.
The comments on Citéline’s facebook site or accompanying the petition, which already has more than 1,500 signatories, are eloquent. Multiplication of connections, unsuitable schedules, lengthened journey times, etc., are denounced en masse. For the petitioners: “This plan must not be applied, we must take the time to hear from users. “
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