The capital of France wants to be 100% adapted to the bicycle.
Paris wants to be a capital 100% adapted to the bicycle and for this it is going to invest 250 million euros (about 291 million US dollars) in building bike lanes, creating protected parking spaces and limiting traffic in the city center. announced this Thursday the City Council.
“We want to make Paris a city 100% adapted to cycling. We will accelerate the transformation of the city around the bike and we will modify the public space “said in an interview to the newspaper Le Parisien the person in charge of ecology of the town hall, David Belliard, on the occasion of the presentation of his cycling plan.
The basis of this transformation, according to Belliard, is to reduce the space of private cars to leave more for pedestrians, buses, bicycles and nature.
“Now the bike represents 5.6% of trips while cars account for 9%. On certain days and in certain places we see that there are more users of bicycles than of cars “he added.
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On Boulevard Sébastopol, one of the main arteries of the capital, there are 20,000 trips by bicycle every day, he indicated by way of example. The average displacement in the city is 2.8 kilometers.
The 250 million euros dedicated to this project under the mandate of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who was re-elected in the 2020 municipal elections and should remain in office until 2026, represents 100 million euros more than the budget that existed between 2015 and 2020. .
Of that total, 180 million will be dedicated to the construction and improvement of infrastructures and bicycle parking with the creation of some 50,000 spaces on the street and another as many in private spaces; 40 million to road safety education programs for minors and associations; and the rest will be directed to the reform of traffic areas limited to other vehicles.
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In his Twitter account, the councilor specified that the plan foresees create an additional 130 kilometers of separate lanes from other traffic by 2026, 390 kilometers of two-way lanes, and support for circular economy businesses that want to use bicycles to deliver orders and commercial transport. (I)
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