The High-Speed Rail Line (LGV) PACA is definitively dead in favor of the New Railway Line (NLF)? Currently, the new priority of the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry) seems to be the creation of a new railway infrastructure between Nice and Le Muy.
“It’s better to be in Marseille in 1 hour and 15 minutes with a New Railway Line than in 50 minutes with a High-Speed Line that will never come to be!” The message from Bernard Kleynhoff, president of the CCI Nice Côte d’Azur, is clear: there will be no LGV.
That being said, there’s no question of becoming an “Indian reservation for tourists,” as he humorously puts it. The construction of new railway infrastructure is still relevant, albeit with a more regional focus.
Thus, the CCI’s first of 12 proposals is born, namely the creation of a new railway line between Nice and Le Muy, followed by an upgrade of the Nice-Vintimille line, which is heavily saturated. This project would save nearly 40 minutes on the Nice-Marseille route and could allow connection to the future High-Speed Train (TAV) to go to Genoa in just over 1 hour.
An integration with the Mediterranean arc (Barcelona-Genoa) that is three times cheaper than the Nice-Paris LGV project.
Less impressive but more economical and, above all, more reasonable. The NLF will cost three times less than its predecessor, estimated at 25 billion euros, or 7.5 billion. An ambitious project that will not materialize for at least a decade.
For Bernard Kleynhoff, this new line is the only effective and sustainable solution for the development of the Côte d’Azur, which cannot rely solely on air and road transport.
