When in opposition… you oppose! After the PR operation by the mayor of Nice, who “dressed” Place Masséna with four giant displays featuring figures that illustrate the benefits of the second tramway line (east-west), his chief opponent returns to the argument to present “his” numbers.
In fact, while figures must always be accurate, it is equally true that they can be interpreted and ultimately made to say whatever one wants.
Politicians know this well and use and abuse it.
In this dance, the poor citizen, future user, will find it hard to make sense of it all!
Here is Patrick Allemand’s version, who criticizes Christian Estrosi and accuses him of using institutional communication for propaganda:
The Deputy-Mayor of Nice found nothing better to do than place huge numbers (3, 2400, 26, 20,000) on Place Masséna without indicating what they corresponded to. In fact, it was yet another communications operation, funded by taxpayers, intended to once again promote the second tramway line.
In this period of financial crisis for local governments, I denounce and condemn this completely useless communications operation.
The real numbers, which are worth remembering and cost Nice taxpayers nothing because they will never be the subject of a communication campaign, are as follows:
- 17,000: this is the number of Niçoises and Niçois who signed the petition against the tram tunnel.
- 180 million euros: this is the minimum extra cost of the tram tunnel compared to the surface route.
945: these are the meters that will separate the Rue Paul Valery station and the Alsace Lorraine garden, far from the 400-meter average of tram line 1.
1.5 billion: this will be the amount corresponding to the minimum debt of the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis in 2017.
This is why the Deputy-Mayor of Nice is devoting so much effort to this “propaganda” for tram line 2. Because, ultimately, it is himself he is trying to convince of the validity of this choice.
