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Lyon: environmentalists presented their project to "improve the quality of life" at La Guillotière

2023-01-30T16:59:28.595Z


To respond to security issues, the city and metropolis of Lyon presented their action plan for the district on Monday.


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After several months of consultation, the elected officials of the city and the metropolis of Lyon presented their action plan on Monday "

to improve the daily life of the inhabitants in the long term

" of the Guillotière district.

A project for the moment more parametric than systemic, to paraphrase the current debates on pension reform, which includes in particular a redevelopment of public space, a plan to fight against unfit housing but also a reorganization of the commercial fabric.

A redesigned road

If the relocation of the tramway to the banks of the Rhône or the removal of the metro station were quickly excluded from the project, the two local executives presented a plan for modifying the district in two stages.

By 2024, Cours Gambetta will be vegetated with the removal of parking spaces between Places Raspail and Péri.

At the same time, rue Paul Bert will be cut off at rue Villeroy to eliminate transit traffic towards avenue de Saxe.

The sidewalks will be widened to facilitate pedestrian traffic.

In the medium term, the entire Cours Gambetta will be redesigned with the creation of a two-way cycle path (Lyon route no. 12).

An arrival that could mean the removal of a traffic lane on this axis.

"

These first interventions foreshadow a longer-term transformation on the scale of the Gabriel-Péri sector

", indicates the metropolis.

"

The objective is to make a place where it is good to live for its restaurants and cafes around the cuisines of the world

", declared for his part Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon.

Possible perspective for the rehabilitation of Cours Gambetta Grand Lyon

The clip will stay

The question of the destruction of the clip, a building overlooking Place Gabriel-Péri, has long been part of the debate on the future of La Guillotière.

The elected metropolitan and municipal environmentalists finally decided against its demolition.

The metropolis has studied different scenarios with a view to its rehabilitation or demolition.

Faced with a very high cost, estimated between 70 and 110 million euros, with a very high legal and technical complexity, Greater Lyon is directing its intervention towards a better integration of the building

”, indicates the community.

Concretely, the metropolis will ask the 400 owners of the Clip to participate in the rehabilitation of the facades.

The city is also working on the installation of a public service at the foot of the building.

A more varied commercial fabric

If the communities want the district and its businesses to remain "a crossroads of the world", the latter have been committed for several years to diversifying the commercial offer.

Clearly, limit

“snacks, fast food and mobile phones.

Activities at the foot of the building concentrated in the Peri sector”

by the preemption of commercial leases, as mentioned in a deliberation adopted in January 2020 by the previous majority.

Four million euros have been spent in two years on this subject, said Bruno Bernard.

The metropolis indicates, however,

"that particular attention will be paid to limiting the gentrification already underway in the district".

Rue de Marseille will not be pedestrianized

As written above, the possibility of pedestrianizing rue de Marseille has been abandoned.

A project criticized by the inhabitants and by the police who saw it as a problem for safety in the street.

We studied the question and we agreed that it was not the right solution.

There was this concern of the residents but also of the security forces.

If the question of pedestrian comfort is important, for the moment pedestrianization is not our priority

”, assured Béatrice Vessiller, Vice-President in charge of Urban Planning.

Fight against unfit housing

45,000 people currently live in the neighborhood where extreme poverty and wealthier households coexist.

A third of the inhabitants of the Moncey district live below the poverty line

,” said Renaud Payre, the vice-president in charge of housing.

To fight against unfit housing, around twenty addresses are currently monitored.

"

Their owners are enjoined to do work and if they do not then coercive measures, going as far as expropriation, will be possible

", continues the vice-president.

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Source: lefigaro

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