The Western airport could bring some turbulences in the majority of Angers city council

While divisions inside the minority camp of Angers city council have worsened with the recent side-lining of Laurent Gérault, the majority has now its own difficulties, maybe more divisive. The amplification, nation wide but also in Angers, of the questionning about Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport scheme, is now visible in the rank of the majority of the Angers town council, constituted with Parti socialiste supporters and Europe Ecologie Les Verts members. 

These have recently published on their new website a press release signed by important members of the municipal team. Jamila Delmotte, Vincent Dulong and Gilles Mahé, all Angers deputy-mayors, express criticism about the airport project the Angers Loire Métropole authority, leaded by Jean-Claude Antonini, previous mayor of the city, officialy supports. "Is it right that Angevins must have to spend hundreds of thousands of euros every year for the scarce traffic of Angers Marcé airport which surely will disappear if Notre-Dame-des-Landes scheme is implemented?", they question. "How can we support such a facility which will decenter the gravity of our region with the real risk to isolate [Angers]? ".
 
That analysis about the usefulness of the airport is very different with those of the city council majority which points out that "The external accessibility of the territory is an issue of competitiveness" in the Alm website. Some decisions will have to be made up inside the Angers city council regarding the facilities resulting from the implementation of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The first will be the service road linking Angers to the Western airport. If those have to intervene before the next municipal polls of 2014, the majority side could face some "turbulences"". Fasten seat belts!