“Cherry, apple trees, sorbiers, chestnuts, birch … We mix varieties as nature would”, comments Elian Mestdagh, head of the “Valorization of the territory” service Country country. Friday January 31, 18 CM2 students from the Joseph-Sanguinette school group Roam have planted around twenty treesalong theOld railroadbecome a greenway conducive to walking or bicycle walks.
“It is the greenway of the country of sources,” says the “nature” host Bénédicte Piallat. The project is to plant around four hundred trees, from Coudun to Villers-sur-Coudun. These trees will produce fruit that walkers will be able to consume. ”
Hervé Le Goff, delegated city councilor in charge of school affairs, observe schoolchildren handle the shovel. “Children, when they have grown up, will remember their tree,” he hopes.
Thursday, February 6, it will be the turn of the schoolchildren of Villers-sur-Coudun to plant their trees.
The greenway stretches 3.6 km
This green route stretches 3.6km from an old railway commissioned in 1872. “As soon as the automobile appeared, this railway line has periclite, says Elian Mestdagh. It continues to operate for freight only, until the 1970s. ”
Connected to the cycle network of the agglomeration of the Compiègne region, the greenway allows you to go to the Compiègne station. The project is to extend it to Vignemont. On certain portions, as in Antheuil-Portes, the line still belongs to the SNCF.
