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Limited traffic zone: in Lyon, the opposition fears the death of the city center

2023-03-14T15:24:32.411Z


Announced last week, the creation of a limited traffic zone on the Lyon peninsula is already criticized by traders and local opposition politicians.


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By 2025, the Presqu'île de Lyon will be affected by the creation of a limited traffic zone (ZTL).

A space in which only the cars of residents and traders will be authorized.

Announced Friday by Bruno Bernard, the president of the metropolis, and Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, this ZTL is already making the opposition cringe.

Yann Cucherat and Louis Pelaez, two close to Gérard Collomb of the group "For Lyon", are already worried "about the suffering for traders" that this area will cause in addition to "to saturate more significantly the entrances to the city

"

.

Fears shared by Pierre Oliver, mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon:

A consultation already played out in advance?

The downtown management association My Presqu'île, which brings together merchants and merchant associations in this part of Lyon, also shared its concern.

As a representative of retailers, I clearly think that people will no longer come by car to the city center but will go to Part-Dieu or to the brand villages outside Lyon.

To tell the truth, my friends who are in the west of Lyon no longer come to the city center

”, laments Olivier Michel, president of My Presqu'île.

George Képénékian, mayor of Lyon from 2017 to 2018, told him to share the goals of this new area but pointed to a method problem.

We ourselves also had the project to pedestrianize.

We even did several experiments for that.

The problem is that the elected environmentalists have made a consultation with an opinion already decided.

In Quebec, they talk about seeking reasonable accommodation.

But this requires that the objective is not defined in advance.

It is a Socratic maieutics.

We never achieve unanimity

, ”he criticizes.

We have the impression that the dice were loaded in advance

, abounds Olivier Michel.

Of the two scenarios proposed, local residents and traders all chose A, in the end B was chosen.

We were listened to but not heard

.

Where will the cars on rue de Grenette go?

In a press release, Yann Cucherat and Louis Pelaez officially asked the elected environmentalists to reveal the studies which led them to close the rue de Grenette and its 10,000 daily cars to find out where the postponement of journeys will take place.

Asked about the subject during the press conference presenting the ZTL, the elected environmentalists did not give more details on this postponement.

Currently, 10,000 cars pass rue de Grenette every day.

Our goal is that tomorrow, they 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

.

50,000 inhabitants live in the Presqu'île today and 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.

Yes, the goal is for people to stop driving

,” assumed the president of the metropolis.

At Les Républicains, we are already organizing to study all the possible options against this project, from the broad consultation of the inhabitants of the city center, to the request for a local referendum.

Legal options are also considered.

Source: lefigaro

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