Through Juliette Vignaud
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Carbon neutral deliveries, this is the promise made in Saint-Germain-en-Laye by La Poste. Whether by cargo bike or electric vehicle, Colissimo now carries out all its deliveries while respecting the environment. It was also a wish of the City. Indeed, Colissimo and Saint-Germain-en-Laye have signed a partnership agreement intended to develop innovative and sustainable urban logistics solutions. The first electric vehicle arrived in January 2020. Almost two years later, 10 vehicles are circulating in the town. In one year, nearly a ton of CO2 has been saved in the city.
Two cargo bikes for the hyper-center
To go further, Colissimo has invested in two cargo bikes to ensure delivery to the hyper-center.
“The teams were volunteers, there were cyclists among them and a taste for challenge. With a bicycle, they deliver faster, they are less stressed about poor parking. It is also less physical because they walk less. ”
If in a cargo bike, the delivery person can transport between 80 and 110 parcels against 140 in a car, the gain in efficiency allows them to better ensure “the right actions”. Indeed, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the narrow cobbled streets and closed to cars, there are some on every street corner. With a cargo bike, the delivery man can sneak up and stop at the bottom of the address like this morning of December 15 – a record delivery day, “the peak of the end of the year holidays”. In total, on this date, 2,155 packages were delivered in the town, against an average of 1,400, and 2,100 at the same peak in 2020. Five people were hired as reinforcements for the period to help seasoned postal workers like Yohan. He started here 13 years ago, after a few years in the Hauts-de-Seine, he has “come back to his roots” in Saint-Germain-en-Laye as he says, for two and a half years. Rue des Bons-Enfants on December 14, he made a series of deliveries by cargo bike, with a smile on his face and his 101 parcels to be delivered. “It’s so much more convenient. I can park, I have less walking. I have the impression of having gained half an hour on the tour, ”he confirms. This bike lover was however skeptical at first.
“I was borderline refractory, I had a lot of questions as we were the first to test them but we wanted to try, he says. At first, I couldn’t do it, I felt like I was unstable, it’s a helping hand to take. Now it’s adopted, I wish we had more. “
He put forward the idea of investing in one or two additional bicycles to deliver the streets on the outskirts of the center like rue République or rue Saint-Louis.
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