Bordeaux Sud: AFSB (high-speed line) construction workers set fire to electrical connections with a cigarette!
La Grappe, May 12, 2025 via: sansnom

They’d been warned it was serious to smoke near an area as flammable as the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line construction site. But they wouldn’t listen.

It’s true that since the A69 project was halted by Toulouse’s administrative court, there’s plenty to be nervous about. There’s a whiff of unemployment about the LGV… And it can’t be easy to be involved in a project that received over 90% negative opinions during the public inquiry. You can’t feel at your best! It’s like feeling like you’ve betrayed your own and are fattening up the very people who exploit workers more and more. But don’t complain when there’s no money left for public services. As JP Farandou of the SNCF so aptly put it: “the high-speed train is not a public service”… And yet, it’s our tax money that’s going to pay for this high-speed line. It’s beyond comprehension… In any case, this is the result of their recklessness:

SNCF deplores the delays and cancellations caused by this event. Usually, they encourage them through their strategic choices, leaving existing lines to deteriorate further and further. But no! It deplores them… If ever the staff of the companies working on these sites are reminded that there is a “right of withdraw” allowing them to recover a little lost honor under the ballast.

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