Lyons. A new cycle path will link the Tête d’Or park and the banks of the Rhône

The mega project of the “Lyonnaise routes”, this network of cycle paths designed as a public transport network in the metropolis of Greater Lyon, continues this summer. After the commissioning of the first section of line 1 in July at the Quai Claude-Bernard (7th arrondissement), it is in the 6th that work is launched.

The Métropole is in the process of developing the portion at the level of the avenue de Grande-Bretagne between the Tête d’Or park and the Morand bridge. “It is the continuation of the development of line 1 of the Lyon routes”, explains Fabien Bagnon, vice-president of roads and active mobility at Greater Lyon.

This Lyon route must connect Saint-Fons in the south to Vaulx-en-Velin, passing through the center of Lyon along the Rhône, along the Tête d’Or park, the Doua university campus and cross the Jonage canal with a dedicated footbridge.

A new cycle path and more pedestrian spaces

Between the Tête d’Or park and the Morand bridge, there is already a cycle path but “it is a question of taking up certain parts and keeping others”, according to Fabien Bagnon. The work should make it possible to create a new cycle path 3 meters wide and to give pedestrians back the space where bicycles and passers-by mixed between the trees.

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“Les Architectes des Bâtiments de France (ABF) has requested that the pedestrian/bicycle area on the upper part of the platforms be entirely pedestrian. This allows us to create this new cycle path and to trim a car traffic lane, there is room, ”according to the vice-president of Greater Lyon.

The elected environmentalist also confirms the removal of around twenty parking spaces.

The intersection of the Tête d’Or park soon to be reviewed

The services of the Métropole are also studying a redevelopment of the intersection of the Tête d’Or park between the avenue de Grande-Bretagne and the Quai Charles-de-Gaulle, which is very dangerous for cyclists. “We want to make a very high quality development”, according to Fabien Bagnon.

The Lyon route will also pass through the Achille-Lignon alley between the Cité internationale and the park. The Métropole has taken note of the abolition of the “coronapiste” which will not be perpetuated on the other side, quai Charles-de-Gaulle. It will then join the Boulevard Laurent-Bonnevay sector as far as Vaulx-en-Velin on the other side of the canal to then connect to the future T9 tram.

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The construction of this 17-kilometre Lyon route will be completed in 2023.

Another Lyon route will better connect the Tête d’Or park, line 2, between Fontaines-sur-Saône and Saint-Priest. It will run along the service road of boulevard Stalingrad near Villeurbanne. Free parking will be removed.

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