As soon as they were elected, the environmental mayors worried a section of the population who very often had underestimated the extent of the green wave. Now in charge of some of the largest French cities (Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Tours, Poitiers, etc.), the EELV councilors are leaving measures that are causing buzz. Even when it is sometimes only a question of intentions, like the new mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, for whom the Lyon-Turin high-speed line, whose work began two and a half years ago , is a “wrong project” for which “you should not insist”.
Doucet, who the day after his election assured BFMTV that "the divide that makes sense in politics is that between the terrestrial and the non-terrestrial", also has more awaited proposals. Like most of his green colleagues, he plans a "100% cycling" and 100% walkable city ". In the more or less long term, city centers will have to be purged of automobile traffic, confirms Pierre Hurmic in Bordeaux.
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It was also predictable, the new green municipalities promise to quickly switch school canteens to 100% organic and are standing up against the rise of 5G. Clivant, Eric Piolle, the mayor of Grenoble, would also like to “degenerate” the playgrounds where the little boys would rule, thus fueling a rich debate on the social networks of his city…
Domestic flights, police, everything goes by
In Tours and Poitiers, the new green masters also want to do battle with low cost air links, in accordance with the guidelines of EELV (more and more shared by other parties), hostile to domestic airlines because of global warming and pollution control. Michèle Rubirola, the new mayor of Marseille, will have to face the discontent of the municipal police. "She wants to disarm us and disconnect the CCTV cameras. You will see how delinquency, like in Grenoble, will explode, ”grumbles a policewoman.
To the chagrin of the Conservatives, the new green elected officials intend to respond to the expectations they have aroused. And move towards their projects of "peaceful cities" with "soft mobility", planted, even vegetable-rich.