When it comes to pedestrianization, local elected officials are walking on eggshells. In Nancy, however, the time is no longer for consultation or negotiations. The subject will be submitted to the municipal council this Monday, May 9. The blow is gone. The city of the dukes, which aligns only 3.37 kilometers of pedestrian ways (1.61% of its road network, against 3% for certain cities of the same size), is preparing to catch up with a delay of almost twenty years. After the pedestrianization of its shopping street at the end of the 2000s, rue Saint-Jean, the last emblematic measure dates back to 2005 with the inauguration of Place Stanislas cleared of its cars.
Since that date, Nancy has let the car invade her streets while her counterparts took the turn of appeasement by returning their city centers to pedestrians, as well as to cyclists. Metz, for example, undertook its transformation in 2008, taking advantage of the opening of the construction site for its high-level service bus network (BHLS). Close the parenthesis.
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