The Toulouse RER appeals to mayors

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The majority of candidates for town halls in the Toulouse agglomeration, vying for the second round, declared themselves in favor of a Toulouse RER. The collective “Rallumons l’étoile” is putting pressure on and offers a platform that even candidate Moudenc, the only one in Toulouse who has not signed for the RER, could accept.

The star of the Toulouse RER project has never shone with such a fire. This is what the proponents of this project for the development of proximity rail links around the Pink City think, connecting the main stations of the municipalities of the periphery to the city center by using the existing SNCF network. Gathered in the “Rallumons l’étoile” association, they sent their “Manifesto for a Toulouse RER” to all the candidate lists for municipal elections in the 113 municipalities of Tisséo.

A majority of elected officials and candidates outside Toulouse

“More than 130 lists from all sides signed this manifesto before the first round. 52 municipalities representing more than 300,000 inhabitants are already guaranteed to be led by a majority signatory of the manifesto, according to the collective” Rallumons l ‘ star “. In Toulouse, 9 lists also signed it. Only Jean-Luc Moudenc did not do so while the other list present in the second round, Citizen Archipelago, signed. In a letter dated 18 February, the candidate Jean-Luc Moudenc said, however, “share the need for an RER and the interest in first short-term measures by optimizing the existing, as proposed by the association, but he expressed his disagreement on one co-financing by Tisséo “, according to Rallumons l’Etoile.

“The axis of the rest of our campaign will therefore not be to push for a debate” for or against the RER “in the municipalities concerned by the second round, but to bring a constructive proposal to the scale of Tisséo that even Jean -Luc Moudenc could accept “, explains Benoît Lanusse, coordinator of the association. “We would indeed like the Tisséo union committee to decide, in July, on the launch of studies, with the region and SNCF, on the feasibility and potential benefits of first actions within two years on the Toulouse RER. would allow Tisséo’s elected officials to have the elements necessary to debate it in a transparent manner and to be able to position themselves on possible experiments from 2021 and 2022 “. Let’s light up the star is preparing a platform that will challenge the candidates for the second round and all of the elected officials from the 113 municipalities of Tisséo.

Trains running from 6 am to midnight

“It is possible, for a reduced cost, to quickly get on the rails a Toulouse RER with trains running from 6 am to midnight, integrated pricing with Tisséo, a first Montauban-Castelnaudary line and better train / bus coordination,” said Benoît Lanusse, according to whom: “The municipal authorities are focusing on municipal questions. However, the question of travel requires a metropolitan response. With the crisis, there is an urgent need to act. In July, the elected officials of the 113 communes of Tisséo will have the opportunity to provide a first response by opening the door to a Toulouse RER improving public transport across the city. “

Whatever the outcome of the second round, notably in Toulouse, the debate around the RER is likely to burst into Tisséo as well as the communities that contribute to it (Métropole, Sicoval, Muretain and SITPRT). “I hope that the next term will be that of the second crown, with the importance of stations,” prophesied Philippe Guyot, mayor of Plaisance, during the last union council of Tisséo, before the municipal elections.

If the mayors of Blagnac, Muret, Plaisance, Saint Orens or Castelginest have not (yet) signed the manifesto, the lists vying in Colomiers, the second city of the department, or Tournefeuille, for example, have done so …