What are our “zélus” [elected officials] doing, the mayor and the councilors? Oh Pépino, wake up! They’re bringing up the TGV/LGV Nice-Genoa, or Nice-Marseille again. More precisely: Nice-Paris, Nice-Rome. For the Cannes-Nice or Nice-Ventimiglia route, good luck, huh! Where is your train set going to go? By the Tanneron, or the Pass of Death?
Well, it will allow the elected officials to quickly go anoint themselves in Paris or get blessed in Rome, or for a parachuted Prefect to swiftly replace a disgraced colleague. But it won’t solve Nice’s problem.
What we absolutely need, if we want to give some air to our beautiful city, is a Nice-Turin railway line. Both History and Geography point to it. I know, they are the neglected children of public education; perhaps because our elected officials are dunces in those subjects.
Project: a line starting from the airport’s vicinity, running along the Var (the river, not the department!) passing under the Mercantour and from there heading to Turin.
No highway: transport by rail freight. There’s room: the M.I.N area for unloading and loading trucks.
Turin is the natural partner of Nice. Northern Italy, and from there to Central and Northern Europe. Have you heard about the tunnel project in the Dolomites? 50 km! Ending in Austria! Funded by the local Region… With Europe backing it, of course. Because among us, wealth is not just production, but also the circulation of that production. You haven’t heard of Adam Smith? What are they teaching you in your parties?
Oh yes! Getting elected with empty rhetoric… I see.
So good riddance, the elected! And let the citizens work.
Ciao, e viva!
