THE DORDOGNE
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ISSUE 38
APRIL 2012
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News and What’s On information for the Dordogne and surrounding area
Woman wins fight to keep wild boar
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TGV must link with Dordogne, say mayors
€2m test to check out faster internet service A €2 MILLION project to connect a whole commune to a fibre optic internet service is to be carried out at Fougueyrolles in Bergerac. The pilot scheme will cover 240 households and will be used to gain experience with a view to connecting the whole of the Dordogne to fibre optics. Work will start at the end of this year and should be completed by the end of 2013. It has been made possible by a grant from Europe aimed at helping rural areas upgrade their internet connections. Serge Foucaud, the president of the Pays du Grand Bergeracois, responsible for launching the scheme, says it is important to make sure that a rural area like the Dordogne is kept up to date with the latest technology. “Good internet connections are now as important as a rail, road or air infrastructure. We want everybody to have good internet access. “We have a good quality of life here. If we also have excellent internet connections we can continue to attract businesses and new residents to the area.”
by JANE HANKS
EASTER DAYS OUT Four pages of events in What’s On – Pages 8-11
THE MAYORS of Périgueux and Bergerac have joined forces to demand improved TGV rail links to Paris, which will give a huge boost to the Dordogne economy. They want the journey time to the capital to be cut to three hours from both cities. At present the journey from Périgueux to Paris takes around four a half hours and it is just possible to get from Bergerac to Paris in the same amount of time. Mayors Michel Moyrand, of Périgueux, and Bergerac’s Dominique Rousseau say threehour times are possible through improved rail links with Limoges and Bordeaux to join up with the proposed new LGV line (ligne à grande vitesse) planned for the west of France. Périgueux would need a new electrified line to Limoges to join the planned Paris-PoitiersLimoges TGV service, while Bergerac needs a faster connection to Bordeaux to access the Bordeaux-Tours-Paris TGV line. The Dordogne is the only department in
Aquitaine without direct access to the proposed new TGV lines. Mr Moyrand has made the TGV link one of his main priorities, with the motto Le TGV: un avenir pour la Dordogne (the TGV: the future of the Dordogne). Meanwhile, Mr Rousseau is closely watching a study by SNCF and RFF (Réseau Ferré de France which is responsible for the rail network) on ways to cut the journey time between Bordeaux and Bergerac from one hour 20 minutes to one hour. At a packed meeting recently Mr Moyrand explained the plans in front of leading supporters and said: “It is a historic opportunity for Périgueux and the Dordogne: the capital of the Dordogne must be linked to this strategic line, by modernising the 99km which separate Périgueux from Limoges.” Î Turn to P2
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