Happy new year

Christmas is gone. And all the symbols which are united with. The Ralliement plaza is now without the wooden huts. Within a few days, the illumations will disappear from the streets. The Angers inhabitants will move on to something else. The Christmas trees yesterday at the center of the sweet home are now thrown away.  The symbol of our time is also an ordinary consumption product.

A new year is "on the tracks" for Angers inhabitants with the next streetcar which will undoubtedly reshape parts of the city. The urban renovation is near the end. A new phase of urban developpement could take over on ten years long. That could be useful if the city stays finally in the national scheme of high speed lines (would could move Angers closer to Paris) and, in that way, stays connected to the european railway network.

The major challenges are at home : the restoration of balanced local finances, the control of tax pressure and the stimulation of business (because employment depends on it). But the inhabitants will have to move themselves in their mind instead of staying hooked on old illusions (like the demonstrations against the national pensions systems). So good cheer and happy new year!