In the workshop open to the four winds, where apprentice bicycle repairers learn to change a mountain bike fork or adjust a brake, Alexia, short square and protective apron, sighs.
The visit of the Minister of the Environment, Barbara Pompili, this Monday at the Academy of cycling trades on rue Rosenwald in Paris (15th century), does not amuse her: "It's just that she makes me lose. training time ”, apologizes the former sound engineer in full retraining.
However, the number 3 of the government comes to distribute good news which will boost the bicycle repair market and secure his future job, already a way forward.
The "bicycle boost", this aid of 50 euros offered by the State to repair our old biclous, will be "extended for three months".
It is therefore valid until March 31.
Long, very long wait
“The device was intended to stop,” explains the minister.
But so that it does not stop too brutally and since we are heading towards a second deconfinement, we have decided to extend it.
"Given the waiting times to get an appointment, especially in the Paris region, this is the last moment to take advantage of it.
On the side of the Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB), we are delighted with these three little months grappled.
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This device has been a real success: it has already been used a million times, half by French people who never or almost never took their bikes out of the garage, according to an OpinionWay study for the FUB.
Contrary to what one believes, it is not the sores of the big metropolises which seized it most: two thirds of this aid was used in communes of less than 20,000 inhabitants.
Coupled with coronapistes, around 1,000 km of cycle lanes added at full speed, the “boost” has enabled the use of the little queen to reach a plateau in France.
He also allowed the creation of Alexia's promo.
“This short training which has just started, allows in three weeks to be able to assure the minute repairs.
There is a real need to unload the mechanics, whereas they are overwhelmed everywhere in France ”, reports Mathias Duval, the coordinator of the training.
30 million euros to put employees in the saddle
Another tool, to "tackle all the brakes on cycling", in the midst of the characteristic noise of the pedal, Barbara Pompili has pledged 30 million euros to help employers (companies, administrations, associations ...) to put their employees in the saddle.
The FUB, which has already piloted the “bicycle boost”, will set up the Internet platform which will offer a toolbox allowing it to be labeled “pro bicycle employer” and thus benefit from the assistance of the 'State.
“We are targeting around 4,000 employers and 500,000 employees,” says Olivier Schneider, the association's president.
A simplified version will be put online in January, which will be enriched as and when.
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The federations of cyclists hope that the companies which will have invested to convert their employees will be good ambassadors, that they will be able to claim bicycle parking spaces in stations, will be able to put pressure on the communities in order to obtain secure tracks so that their employees arrive. safe and secure.
