The schedule continues to accelerate for the rue de Reims. Indeed, the current pedestrianization project (and which was announced in a previous article) is becoming more concrete every day with the end of the work scheduled for the next three years. Thus, the year 2022 will be devoted to underground and network work, while surface work will take place in 2023.
This surface site will include the decision to replace the bitumen with a coating with paving stones, a bit like what exists in front of the Church. “Our ambition is to make this operation a calming project, to pacify its uses”, explains Maxime Coupey, in charge of the project, in consultation with the Association of residents and traders of the Bastide (ARCB). By 2023, rue de Reims will be closed to most cars thanks to the installation of access terminals, at the entrance and exit of this section of the street. These terminals will allow access to vehicles from residents and delivery people while transit traffic, these cars which use the rue de Reims only to get to the right bank, from the Agout to Coufouleux, will be relieved towards the rue du center. .
Revision of the traffic plan
“It is exactly the same system that we find in the pedestrian streets in the hypercentres of Albi, Castres or Toulouse, continues Maxime Coupey.” In short, a major project in perspective which will also be carried out as part of a revision of the traffic plan in the city center. Indeed, once the work is completed on rue de Reims, the municipality will work to rethink the adjacent streets, such as rue Edmond-Cabié. An update, so to speak, which should take shape by the end of the mandate. For Mayor Raphaël Bernardin, this work aims to demonstrate that, despite this period of confinement, Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe remains a city on the move ready to renovate one of its most emblematic arteries. “The question is no longer whether to do it or not, he says. The question is rather how to do it!”
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