2024-05-07 15:39:24
Highway projects don’t only scare tree defenders. A sea serpent in Lorraine, that of the Richemont and Swatch shares are trading lower after LVMH”>A 31 bis also worries businesses around Florange, north of Metz (Moselle). After the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune confirmed, at the beginning of 2024, the route project selected, among four, for this new 8 km motorway, those located in the Sainte-Agathe artisanal zone, located at the heart of a future ramp. connection to the edge of the current A 30 fear expropriations and works.
“About fifteen years ago I was told: Come and settle here! Now, they tell me: We’re going to have to leave,” protests William Pédrini, boss of CMI Équipement and president of the CAC 140, a club of entrepreneurs in the Fensch valley. In this road area already saturated by the neighboring A 31 motorway, between Lorraine and Luxembourg, the new toll motorway would, according to the public authorities, make it possible to relieve traffic congestion.
“We will see what we are offered in terms of compensation”
” But how ? Who will be affected? When ? Or ? » asks the spokesperson for the movement, whose companies represent 600 jobs, annoyed at not getting answers. The population will be affected by the major works between Richemont and Thionville and 18 companies could be expropriated.
The project includes a tunnel of more than 2 km to preserve the population of Florange and facilitate traffic south of this busy area. “We will see what we are offered in terms of compensation,” continues William Pédrini. But don’t be expected to be content with fine words. » Work on the A 31 bis will not start before 2029.
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