Quimper Mayor Unveils Plan to Optimize Parking Spaces in the City Amid Big Projects

“I no longer want people to say that there are no parking spaces in Quimper,” said the mayor, Isabelle Assih, Thursday May 2, presenting a plan to optimize parking spaces within the city ” in the middle of change with big projects”. We are especially thinking about the great hall in the future, the movement of the halls, the work of the station as well as the transformation of the piers of the Odet“The issue of movement and parking is at the heart of these projects. The car is not taboo,” said the mayor. According to figures from the city, today there are around 6,500 parking spaces within the capital of Cornwall, from the train station to the Locmaria alleys.

700 places available on average

An offer considered quite acceptable by the city because, according to one of their studies, there are on average 700 places that would still be available. “In general, it is more at the level of the Théâtre de Cornouaille and in the Providence department,” said Frédéric Le Borgne, responsible for parking and parking management. On the platforms, the situation is very inter different “with an occupancy rate of around 90%”.

A situation that could worsen with the removal of “more than 70 parking spaces” as part of the development of the platforms, on the side of boulevard Dupleix. Not to mention the twenty or so spaces that were removed for the new halls or the approximately 80 spaces that were removed, “which were decided by the city formerly there”, as part of the station project.

Soon multi-storey car parks in the city?

“We are thinking about reestablishing other parking pockets and spaces will be created very quickly,” said the socialist mayor of Quimper. And, after the words, the actions. From this month, and until the end of the year, the City will create sixty parking spaces, including around twenty for motorized two-wheelers, by developing several car parks such as those at the Resistance, Rouget -de-Isle and Tourbie.

In fact, if we compare the places that have been removed, the account does not exist. But “it will”, said Isabelle Assih, evoking for example the investigations launched in relation to works such as the Lattre-de-Tassigny car park and the Michel-Gloaguen car park. “We are considering the extension with a multi-storey car park, a silo. ” A style of parking that may be similar to that found at the Intermarché shopping center (ex-Géant-Casino).

Change coming to Michel-Gloaguen?

The City has also launched an investigation into the current location of the Salle des Béliers de Kemper car park since the station’s footbridge was opened. A parking area which, as we reported in our columns at the beginning of March, is increasingly saturated. “We should get the results in the coming days but it will be our duty to move towards parking regulations in this car park to limit parking time and avoid parking cars,” said the mayor of Quimper, who ‘ nevertheless ensures that a question is not sent for free. .