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The city of Lyon is about to experience a small revolution.
The most important urban project since the pedestrianization of the banks of the Rhône in 2007 by Gérard Collomb.
Friday, in the very Lyonnais Cintra, a bistro where robbers and good local society once rubbed shoulders, Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, and Bruno Bernard, the president of the metropolis, presented their project "Presqu'île à vivre" more commonly called "pedestrianization of the center of Lyon".
Thus, by 2025, the heart of the city of Lyon, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1998, will be affected by a limited traffic zone (ZTL) which will extend from 'Hotel-de-Ville at Place Bellecour.
The map of this limited traffic zone in Lyon.
Greater Lyon
A city center reserved for local residents
In this area, only local residents, delivery people, traders, taxis or even emergency vehicles will be able to circulate.
However, it is not yet known how many vehicles will be affected by these passes.
Exit therefore the traffic of passage to make Lyon from east to west or the reverse.
Exit also traffic via the rue de Grenette which will now only be devoted to public transport.
“
Currently, 10,000 cars pass rue de Grenette every day.
Our goal is that tomorrow they will pass through the Perrache hoppers, through the Croix-Rousse tunnel or through Bellecour with the aim of removing this essentially transit traffic from the Peninsula,” explained Bruno Bernard
.
"
We want to make more spaces for pedestrians, because everyone is a pedestrian at one time or another, by supporting the downward trend in the car in town, the number of journeys for which has fallen by 10% since 2019. In Lyon, people will still be able to use theirs, but some journeys will be longer
,” explained Grégory Doucet.
50,000 inhabitants live in the Presqu'île today, where 90% of trips are made on foot and 3% by car.
Regarding traffic to the center of Lyon, 20% is done by car and 80% on foot or by public transport.
The president assumes perfectly to participate in the reduction of traffic with this project: “
Yes the objective is that people stop driving by car
”, he decided.
A meeting area
Concretely, by 2025, the whole of this zone will be legally a “meeting zone” where the pedestrian will always have priority on the roadway and where the speed of vehicles will be limited to 20 km/h.
This total space of 42,000m2 should be delimited by retractable bollards allowing only authorized persons to pass.
Speed cameras, as exists in Italy, controlling the entrances and exits of this area could also be considered, with a fine for unauthorized vehicles.
As announced in January by the mayor of Lyon, the rue de la République will become entirely and totally pedestrian in its Cordeliers / Hôtel-de-Ville part, all the buses being switched back to the rue de Grenette.
A new strong bus line between Part-Dieu station and the Hôtel-de-Ville via the banks of the Rhône should also see the light of day to serve metro C.
The ZTL from 2025?
The first works in the streets Émile Zola, de l'Ancienne prefecture, quai de la Pêcherie, rue du Garet, Montée Saint-Sébastien are expected for this year.
The first pedestrian streets (rue Puits-Gaillot, rue Sainte-Catherine, rue Romarin, rue Désirée, Rue Terraille, rue Saint-Polycarpe, rue Coustou, rue and place du Griffon) will be created in 2023.
Projection of the future completely pedestrianized Rue Serlin.
©Grand Lyon
The final delivery of the project should take place in mid-2025 for an overall cost of between 20 and 25 million euros.
In the meantime, a monitoring committee will be launched to refine the project and "
hear the concerns
", explained Fabien Bagnon, the vice-president in charge of Roads.
“
There are some every time a major project is announced in the public space.
It is up to us to work with the inhabitants
,” he added.
But while this zone has not yet been voted on, several associations of residents and traders are considering all possible remedies against this limited traffic zone.
An area which, if its timetable is shifted by these probable procedures, could well become in 2026, the battlefield for the next municipal and metropolitan elections.
