The National Road Safety Council (CNSR) will recommend Monday to “legally define” sidewalks as reserved for pedestrians, in response to the risk of collision with bicycles or scooters, we learned from Road Safety.
Created in 2001, decommissioned in 2008 and then reinstalled in 2012, this consultation and proposal body made up of 67 members (elected officials, state representatives, associations, doctors, companies, etc.) is considered the “parliament” of safety road.
On Monday, in a plenary session, the Csnr will formulate nine recommendations to the government, of which no.
The body also wants to “clarify that the sidewalk is physically separated from the roadway so as to be identifiable and detectable by all users”.
License plates in many cities
This recommendation comes as the city of Paris, where 15,000 self-service scooters are available, questions their “cost-effectiveness” and their “environmental cost”, in the words of David Belliard, Assistant for the mobility and roads.
The 15,000 Parisian scooters will thus be equipped with a number plate on the rear fender, as in Grenoble or Germany, to help the police better report infringements.
The CSNR has been chaired since 2017 by Yves Goasdoué, mayor of Flers (Orne). The interministerial delegate for road safety, Florence Guillaume, will be present on Monday at the plenary session of the Council and will have to comment on the recommendations adopted.
