Are the access roads to the Principality saturated? Let’s go see if by sea it can be a solution. This is the ambition carried by the hybrid maritime shuttle between Nice and Cap-d’Ail imagined by the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis.
Matured for a few years in collaboration with the Principality, the project will become a reality next August. The launch was confirmed during the last metropolitan council on Friday by a deliberation on the metropolitan mobility of tomorrow.
Here are 4 points of what you need to know about this shuttle.
1. The finding
Every day, thousands of inhabitants of the Metropolis and therefore thousands of cars, travel to the Principality of Monaco for work.
This daily flow of vehicles greatly increases car traffic on the ledges, generating negative effects on the quality of life and well-being of the inhabitants of these sectors, but also on the quality of the air.
This observation has led the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis and the Principality for years to think together to develop an alternative means of transport such as the creation of this maritime shuttle. “Initially hybrid, it will then be electric or will run on hydrogen “, specifies the Metropolis. The ambition is also to preserve and improve the quality of our environment.
For a renewable period of 2 years, this shuttle will be operated by the Régie Ligne d’Azur as part of its public service contract binding it to the Nice Metropolis.
2. From Lympia port in Nice to Cap-d’Ail port
Close to the Fontvieille business district, the port of Cap-d’Ail will be the second mooring point with the Lympia port in Nice.
The idea of the port of Monaco, once imagined, was finally discarded in order to “remove any legal difficulty linked to cross-border cooperation “ likely to postpone the project had explained, last year, to the national advisers, the government adviser-Minister of Equipment, Environment and Town planning, Marie-Pierre Gramaglia.
3. How often?
The shuttle will run from August. For the moment, a tonnage of 34 daily rotations of 1,200 people in total is planned, with connections every hour and every half hour during peak hours. The shuttle should operate daily and will connect the two ports in 35 minutes, in good weather.
4. Attractive prices for assets
Even if the tourist attraction of such a shuttle is not in doubt, its ambition is to make it a means of transport dedicated to working people who make the round trip between Nice and Monaco to go from their home to their place of residence. job.
For the time being, no figures have been put forward, but the Metropolis promises attractive public transport rates. “This mode of travel will be integrated into the multimodal pass (…) The shuttle will be directly connected to line 2 of the tram as well as to the Port-Lympia relay park, thus promoting intermodality “, had confirmed at the beginning of the year Christian Estrosi, president of the Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis and mayor of Nice.
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