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"In May 2022, we reached attendance records": cycling is exploding in Seine-Saint-Denis

2022-06-20T13:53:36.271Z


The last departmental cycling committee recently brought together associations, municipalities, territories but also the region. The observation is that the practice


It is in a way the high mass of cycling on the scale of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The last annual departmental bike committee was that of all records.

Record participation among the municipalities and territories, with the presence of certain communities that have not been well known up to now on the subject.

"It was one of the busiest meetings I've attended," confirms Louis Belenfant, director of the Collectif Vélo Île-de-France, which took part in discussions with other associations.

“Montfermeil took the floor to say that they were going to work on the bike and that they are doing a mobility study locally, cites the activist, by way of example.

Clichy-sous-Bois was also there.

Territories like Grand Paris Grand Est or Terre d'Envol were present, which is also a sign and a change from the more usual involvement of cities like Montreuil or Pantin.

The region was also there to discuss the progress of the RER V, as was the RATP, whose bus lines may be affected by the transformations.

But the most impressive scores are elsewhere than within the departmental committee itself and are found in the number of daily passages of bicycles.

"In Seine-Saint-Denis, in May 2022, we reached attendance records everywhere and not just on the new tracks near Paris", reports Louis Belenfant.

Confirmation from Corentin Duprey, vice-president of the departmental council in charge of transport: “I am enthusiastic and happy to see that the dynamic is seen throughout the territory”.

3000 passages per day along the Canal de l'Ourcq

With six permanent counters and thirty measurement locations carried out one week per month, over seven months of the year, the department is able to have precise photographs of the flow of bicycles according to the seasons, from Pantin to Aulnay, via Aubervilliers, Bondy, the Canal de l'Ourcq or even Saint-Denis.

The readings are unanimous.

In the perimeter close to Paris, the number of bicycle crossings per day increased on average from 1,000 to 1,200 (+ 20%), between May 2021 and May 2022. In sectors located between 3 and 5 kilometers from the capital, the attendance has doubled, from 400 to 800 biclos per day.

And beyond 5 kilometers, the figures remain very slightly up, to reach 450 daily passages, according to the measurement points.

The most emblematic case is the Canal de l'Ourcq, which has had permanent meters since 2012: in ten years, the number of bicycles per day has multiplied by 6, going from 500 to 3000 today!

Increases confirmed by the seven meters that Montreuil has installed on its network: in the city, the

growth in the flow of cyclists oscillates between + 32% and + 48% depending on the axes.

A new record was set on May 18, at Croix-de-Chavaux, with 4,465 bikes on the day (the previous best score was 4,261).

The three routes, which are experiencing the greatest increase in biclous traffic, are boulevard Aristide-Briand, avenues Pasteur (+ 48%) and Gabriel-Péri (+ 40%).

“In Montreuil, it works, including in working-class neighborhoods,” underlines Louis Belenfant.

“The message that I said to the department is that there is a social demand for cyclists in Seine-Saint-Denis which is progressing faster than the response from the communities, continues the associative activist.

There have been new sections delivered since the Covid crisis, but not emblematic and not sufficient.

For example, you have to put your bike in the trunk of your car to go to La Courneuve park, when it's the green lung and families are teaching their children to pedal there.

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"Industrializing the development of Dutch crossroads"

In 2019, the 93 had announced a major bicycle plan of 150 million over five years, to make 100% of departmental roads cycleable by 2024. Deadline impossible to meet, given the need "to make qualitative arrangements that are suitable needs," says Corentin Duprey.

"We are not going to make linear meters at full speed which will be obsolete when they are put into service," he adds.

We prefer a more ambitious approach.

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The creation of “real” secure equipment also has a price.

“The costs have on average been multiplied by five or six,” assesses Marianne Delsaut, head of the office for sustainable development in Seine-Saint-Denis.

At the end of 2021, 250 cycle kilometers, including 68 in coronapistes, have already been completed on the departmental road network.

By the 2024 Olympic Games, 40 more kilometers will be brought up to standard.

This three-year plan will be endowed with an envelope of 50 million euros, to which will be added the investments linked to certain requalifications or projects carried out by Solideo, the Olympic equipment delivery company.

"We have to manage to industrialize the development of Dutch crossroads and go beyond the stage of the exemplary project carried out on the N 3", asks the department Christophe Piercy, elected in charge of cycling in Saint-Denis.

A municipal proposal has been sent to the community to consider the huge road intersection, near the Delafontaine hospital, between the D 940, rue de Strasbourg and avenue Romain-Rolland.

Seine-Saint-Denis also plans to create another Dutch crossroads at rue du Landy, as part of the requalification of avenue Michelet, in Saint-Ouen.

"When in June, we hit a 40°C heat wave... Well, developing cycling, putting greenery, is responding to the emergency in a very mineral and very road-bound territory, exposed to noise pollution and atmosphere, concludes Louis Belenfant.

The social and climatic bomb particularly affects a department like Seine-Saint-Denis.

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Source: leparis

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