This Monday, Julie Frêche will confirm the objectives of the community. Here are the few ideas.
“Help change behavior for more virtuous mobility.” This is the big goal that Julie Frêche should announce this Monday. Michaël Delafosse’s 6th vice-president will indeed be responsible for detailing, at a new Metropolitan Council meeting, the community’s mobility plan for the next ten years. Not anything like exercise with regard to the stakes in this too often saturated territory.
Brake the car
There won’t be too many surprises to be expected, however, as so many announcements have been made on the subject during the first six months of the mandate. Rather confirmations, starting with the desire to reduce, as much as possible, the car in the streets of Montpellier. Especially since a projection would show that, without a change in behavior, population growth would generate the flow of 94,000 vehicles every day in 2030, compared to 77,700 in 2017. CQFD.
Speed up the bike …
So, to slow down – or even reverse – this completely car curve, Julie Frêche will activate several levers. Starting with the bicycle, obviously, with the will to go from 3% modal share currently, to 9% in 2025, then 15% in 2030.
For this, in addition to incentives like aid of 500 € for the purchase of an electric bike or the provision of 3,000 VAE rentals long term from next September, a ReV, for Réseau express Vélo plans to connect all the municipalities by cycle paths. Or 92 km of master network, 75 km of link network and 170 km of local network to be created in addition to the existing one. A real cycling announced.
And public transport
Another device that should be detailed by Julie Frêche, the development of a network of four bus lines at a high level of service, which will start from Cournonsec, Grabels and Castries, to then encircle the entire city of Montpellier.
“We are aiming for commissioning between 2023 and 2025”, understands an elected official, recalling that these “BRTs” will be supposed to play with traffic jams by driving on their own site, and this with high frequencies at peak hours. What must encourage you to change your habits.
But the marker of this policy, the one that allowed Michaël Delafosse to stand out during the campaign, is obviously free transport. Which, after a first implementation over the weekend, must develop first for young people and seniors from this year, then for everyone in 2023.
Objective: “to appease” and “to preserve”
Everything should be accompanied by a generalization of speed to 30 km / h in city centers and of village and the development of pedestrian plans in each municipality.
It is a plan at 150 M €, that is to say at the same height as that of Lyon
In the idea “to appease the quality of life of the Metropolitan”, as the goal is “to preserve their health” by offering low-carbon mobility, an elected official tells us. Who does not hide that this policy is intended “ambitious. It is a plan of 150 M €, that is to say at the same height as that of Lyon for example. It remains to launch it “.
Because it is in particular on this question of mobility that the action of Michaël Delafosse will be judged in five years now. Big promises, big expectations.
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