A month and a half ago, a dirty atmosphere reigned over the former N186, near the Avicenne hospital, on the border between Drancy and Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Insults, drivers driving wildly on transitory cycle paths and even a reckless driver ...
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The 2 x 2 lane which connects Saint-Denis to the Bondy bridge was historically designed as a transit ring road reserved only for cars.
On leaving confinement, it was rearranged by the department, to allow bicycles to circulate in both directions on a temporary lane withdrawn from motor vehicles.
A real culture shock for users.
On the ex-N186, the situation calmed down
At the end of July, the observation of road behavior in this sector left nothing to bode well for the start of the school year.
We came back on September 8, at the same time, that of a late morning.
This time, the attitudes are much more civilized.
No exaggerated gestures, no cookie-cutter talk, no improbable traffic jams.
The department has reworked its copy and has just narrowed the hold of the coronapistes, up to Avicenna.
An adjustment that made it possible to reopen the second lane to vehicles, in the direction La Courneuve-Bobigny.
"We exist", sums up a cyclist
“I take the track to cycle to high school, summarizes a teenager.
I would never have been there before.
Even if the track is a little precarious, it shows that we exist and that we have the right to cycle here.
"
“Yesterday morning for example, I was driving on the A3, which was completely congested towards Paris.
Waze took me out at Drancy to bypass the highway.
We can not say that the A3 is blocked because of the bikes anyway!
exclaims Matthieu, met on his bike, in Bobigny.
I find it too simple to relate traffic problems only to cycle paths.
"
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“I find that road traffic is better at Avicenna.
On the other hand, in the center of Bobigny, at certain times, it's nonsense, says a motorist for his part.
There are road works that are superimposed on the transformation of a taxiway into a runway.
We find ourselves trapped in single file on certain sections of the 186. ”
"I don't want Parisian-style cycle paths"
An opinion shared 100% by Aude Lagarde, mayor (UDI) of Drancy.
“Thursday morning, I took about thirty minutes instead of eight to ten minutes to travel by car between the premises of the department, in Bobigny, and my offices, in Drancy (Editor's note: about 2.5 km).
The prefecture roundabout was completely embolized.
It was also blocked up to the judicial tribunal.
"
The elected, who has just launched a petition in the middle of the summer against the coronapistes of the former N186, continues to demand a return of the double lane of traffic to cars.
“What the department did in front of Avicenna was a small adjustment, criticizes Aude Lagarde, who nevertheless met the technical teams of Seine-Saint-Denis at the end of August.
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"I do not want cycle paths in Parisian fashion, Madame Hidalgo," warns the mayor of Drancy, while asking for sustainable and secure developments in place of the coronapistes of the former N186.
