Éric de Seynes: "The City of Paris denies the fundamental freedom of citizens to move freely"

Éric de Seynes is a former motorcycle rider and CEO of Yamaha Motor France since 2009.

They've gone mad!

Our leaders of the town hall of Paris have fallen on their heads and are carrying the Parisians, like all the French, in their madness because many provincial towns have decided to blindly follow the same path.

Through their urban planning and traffic policy, our elected officials are damaging Paris, which is becoming a city that is relentlessly shrinking.

Their action aims to impose traffic constraints such that they impose on you a limited movement perimeter for your declared property.

But Paris is also the capital of France, an essential cultural, social and economic crossroads where we must welcome all French people, whether they are from the suburbs or from the provinces, as well as foreign visitors.

And today everything is done so that this mixing, essential to the influence of our capital, can no longer be done properly.

Accessing the capital from the province or the suburb has become hellish.

You don't have to be a chronometer expert to see that our travel times have doubled, in a few years, to get to the center of Paris or to cross the city from side to side ...

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The most serious remains this policy of constraint.

Seen from the town hall, you have to get around Paris on foot, by public transport, by bike or by scooter.

What do we do with the elderly or disabled, professionals in charge of equipment or who have to take on multiple appointments every day?

A modest and deafening silence remains the only answer.

The constraint first affected the automobile: reduction of the number of usable lanes, reversal of the direction of circulation of the streets in order to make the routes more complex, disappearance of parking spaces, reduction of the speed to 30 km / h, interruption of traffic. 'chain of fires, increase in the price of parking and parking lots… While waiting for the next coercive measures, so much does this public policy reflect the rejection of the automobile.

The users, having understood that the automobile was definitely cursed in Paris, turned to the motorized two-wheeler.

And we can say that it is civic to ride in the Paris region.

A motorcycle or a scooter occupies four times less space on the public highway than a car, its user accepts to be confronted with the cold and the rain by participating in the fluidization of the traffic, and finally the consumption of a scooter. 125 is virtuous, with values ​​of 2 to 3 liters / 100 kms and emissions of less than 50g of CO2 / km.

The fundamental freedom of the citizen is based on his right to move freely.

Today, Paris denies it and constrains this essential freedom which contributes to the quality of life of each of us.

Eric de Seynes

This was perceived by the City of Paris as a form of resistance and retaliatory measures were set in motion: narrowing of the lanes to block the re-entry of queues, verbalization by cameras of the use of bus lanes in the event of congestion. , refusal to increase suitable parking spaces, implementation of “campaigns” to impound motorized two-wheelers near stations, and now the application of paid parking which will reduce the parking spaces available to motorists , because motorcycles and scooters will have to be placed there from now on.

With a punitive price of up to 6 € / h, parking could represent a charge of around 10 to 20% of the cost of buying a new 125cc every month! To avoid this racketeering, it would suffice to go electric. But the offer only represents 1.7% of the market for motorcycles and scooters registered at the end of October. Because unlike the automobile, the prices of electric models are three to five times higher than their equivalent thermal versions and the 2-wheel charging stations are not in place ... This is called "

 ”, and which surely corresponds to the core of the thinking of our elected Parisians, which is to take the Ile-de-France for calves.

Seen from the town hall of Paris, it does not matter because it dogmatically announces that the use of individual vehicles will “evaporate” in Paris.

To evaporate means to dissolve, to disappear.

Utopianism and blindness are in power!

What is extremely serious is ultimately to damage the fundamental values ​​of our Republic which are: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

The fundamental freedom of the citizen is based on his right to move freely.

Today, Paris denies it and constrains this essential freedom which contributes to the quality of life of each of us.

All citizens must be equal among themselves and before the law.

This is no longer the case in Paris.

You ride a bicycle or a scooter and you can go up the prohibited directions, burn the fires, ride at night without light, assume uncivil behavior and that with the most total impunity.

You drive by car or motorbike and you will be penalized for the slightest misdemeanor.

Unequal treatment is a daily occurrence.

The pedestrian is frightened by the scooter which grazes him, the cyclist calls out to the pedestrian who crosses, the scooter rider plague on the unicycles which roll in the middle of the lane, the buses can no longer see their lane occupied by delivery men who no longer have enough places to work and motorists are silent, suffering in silence from this systematic oppression.

Eric de Seynes

By its public policy, the City of Paris damages any idea of ​​fraternity.

The users stand up against each other, because constraint and danger are present during any movement.

The pedestrian is frightened by the scooter which grazes him, the cyclist calls out to the pedestrian who crosses, the scooter rider plague on the unicycles which roll in the middle of the lane, the buses can no longer see their lane occupied by delivery men who no longer have enough places to work and motorists are silent, suffering in silence from this systematic oppression.

Yes, our capital has gone mad and citizens in Paris are suffering to see their fundamental rights violated.

And yes, there are capitals where political and ecological sense go hand in hand.

In Amsterdam, which is indeed the capital of cycling, neither cars nor motorcycles are punished.

The lights are intelligent, which makes traffic smoother and reduces journey times.

The right-of-way for cycle paths was made next to existing traffic lanes and not instead.

There are plenty of car parks for everyone.

Multimodal travel (automobile to the city center, then cycling) is favored by adapted infrastructures, but I had forgotten that this was done in consultation with the users.