Soft mobility – Yverdon transforms its old rails into a “green line”

– Yverdon transforms its old rails into a “green line”

More than 550 meters of an old industrial line should be changed into a long line of soft mobility right in the center. A seven-year-old project.

Posted today at 7:22 p.m.

The old industrial service line is now forgotten, between the CFF rails (on the right) and the new residential areas. Its rehabilitation is scheduled for 2023, for 950,000 francs.

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The phenomenon of “greenways” which replace old railway lines is spreading to Yverdon. Right in the center, between rue Saint-Roch and the Clendy district, an old connecting road from the end of the 19th^e century should soon be reassigned to a soft mobility path. A project bordering on the million francs is in any case submitted to the Municipal Council, and proposes to transform some 550 meters of old rails for 2023.

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The idea goes back to the decommissioning of the rails after the departure of the last companies, in 2014. Since then, the project has passed from hand to hand, then been the subject of discussions with the SBB and the stakeholders. Two oppositions will still have to be lifted.