Nearly 450 people connected throughout the evening, up to 200 participants present at the same time, hundreds of messages and questions posted on the shared forum, comments from residents… The public meeting organized last week in distancing on the assessment of the seven kilometers of transitory cycle paths arranged in Montreuil took the form of a solid exercise of concertation on the sharing of public space.
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An effort of transparency.
The good and the bad in terms of travel emerge from the meticulous analyzes carried out by the city teams, who do not hide the data.
“Our position is not to put the difficulties under the carpet, confirms Olivier Stern, deputy mayor in charge of mobility in Montreuil.
If we want to bring everyone with us, it is not by making policies that oppose users that we will achieve this.
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Decrease in motorized traffic from 14 to 49% on major roads.
In September 2020, readings made it possible to compare the level of road traffic to that of pre-containment.
Traffic fell by 14% rue de Paris, 15% rue Marceau, 33% Croix-de-Chavaux, 37% boulevard Aristide-Briand, 40% avenue Gabriel-Péri, 48% boulevard Chanzy and even 49% avenue de la Resistance.
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Explosion of cycling.
With 1,700 passages per day, cyclists account for 21% of the modal share of traffic on Boulevard Aristide-Briand.
At Croix-de-Chavaux, the bicycle counts between 2018 and 2020 confirm the trend, almost a tidal wave.
In July 2018, 26,464 passages were recorded against… 83,129 in July 2020. We even reached 100,610 passages last September.
In December, at the start of winter, the figures stood at over 58,000 passages.
"Yes, but the traffic jams?"
The development of transitional tracks is accompanied by a reduction in queues for motor vehicles, synonymous with "traffic jams and air pollution" for some residents.
"If the goal is to live in the gasoline of cars, it is successful," wrote one of them.
The apparent paradox is there: traffic has fallen but saturation problems remain.
This is particularly the case around avenue Gabriel-Péri, where a survey was conducted among 163 motorists on the origin and destination of their trip.
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Very strong reports.
The Péri avenue - again it - has seen its traffic drop… but it has shifted to a few streets around it.
“Collateral victims”, recognizes the City.
Traffic increased by 92% (984 more vehicles) on rue Colmet-Lepinay and 35% on rue de la Solidarité (1,579 more vehicles).
"But we will provide rapid responses which will involve changing the traffic plan," says Olivier Stern.
The aim is to encourage people who can to get around other than their car.
In June, “Assizes of the peaceful city and mobility” will be organized, to improve the facilities.
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Longer journey times on some bus lines.
Boulevard Briand for example, according to calculations established at the end of September between 9 and 11 a.m., bus 129 (Porte des Lilas / Mairie de Montreuil) now makes its journey in eleven minutes, i.e. one minute and twenty seconds longer than its usual average.
But it is on Boulevard Péri that the 127 bus (Croix-de-Chavaux / Neuilly-sur-Marne) is most difficult, where its journey time is extended by three minutes.
"If it is a question of unloading public transport by preventing them from rolling, it's still astonishing", comments a resident.
Montreuil, July 2020. The new cycle path on avenue Péri and boulevard Chanzy constitutes a section of line A of the future RER Vélo.
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The "pro" and "anti" clash on the forum.
In parallel with the meeting, the “pro” and the “anti-cycling” kindly looked for each other on the forum thread.
"When I see my neighbor continue to take his car to return ten minutes later, I have the impression of living in 1980", balances a resident.
"Your fight to the detriment of cars is insane because too virulent, without duration of transition", retorts another to an activist of the bicycle.
“What exhausts me on the journeys is motorized violence… To be insulted, to have to scream in order not to be run over”, relaunches a cyclist.
A co-financed investment of 1.1 million euros.
"The bicycle is my barrier gesture": this slogan is the starting point for coronapists, these temporary lanes reserved for cyclists on leaving the confinement, on May 11, 2020. The decision was taken urgently and consultation was therefore carried out. organized later, through a first assessment established last week.
At the time, the priorities were different: “Keep it simple, fast and light,” recalls Medy Sejai, director of Espace public in Montreuil.
Go back if necessary and correct the shot if necessary.
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In the midst of a shortage of road equipment caused by the shutdown of factories in China, the town hall of Montreuil did not hesitate to bring in at the end of April from Portugal the last 400 flexible posts available in Europe.
Since then, 2,600 separation and protection beacons have been placed on the seven kilometers of transitional tracks painted white and covered with blue resin at the crossroads.
These developments represent an investment of 1.1 million euros, subsidized by the Region and the State.
On avenue Gabriel-Péri, a third of drivers travel less than five kilometers
Before the coronapistes, avenue Gabriel-Péri in Montreuil was cut into 2 x 2 lanes rather conducive to excess: speeding of over 100 km / h was observed during a week of observations in 2015.
This time, the city services wanted to understand the phenomena of saturation and congestion and to know where the drivers who use it came from and where they were going.
The origin-destination survey was conducted in June 2020 among 163 motorists.
First observations: 80% of them are autosolistes (single people), 87% make the morning commute for their work and 71% go through this avenue every day.
Small surprise, the transit traffic (that is to say unrelated to the sector where the driver is questioned) is only 8%.
According to the survey, one of the explanations is "that part of the transit is now avoiding avenue Gabriel-Péri because of the slowdowns that have appeared with the deconfinement and the information given by GPS navigators".
It also appears that 33% of the traffic concerns a total journey of less than five kilometers and 29% a journey between five and eight kilometers.
It is these drivers that Montreuil hopes to see their habits change.
According to City services, "several studies have shown that the bicycle was the fastest mode of travel (20 minutes) for door-to-door trips of less than five kilometers".