The Government has presented the first measures of the mobility orientation law.
Laurent Lanquar-Castiel, who was the national director of urban transportation policies at ADEME, commented: “On the substance, no significant announcement was made.”
“The only announcement that caught attention is the postponement of the bike plan to September,” according to Laurent LANQUAR-CASTIEL, “while users and elected officials were requesting a national bike plan worth €200M/year.”
Indeed, user associations are worried that “this plan may ultimately fall short of expectations,” while officials from cycling-friendly cities believe “it simply looks like the beginning of a burial.”
According to him, “the main objective is to develop #vélotaf, that is, using bikes to commute to work, since this commute induces all other travel. This notably requires the systematization of the #IKV kilometer allowance for bikes, already established thanks to former ecologist MPs.”
Laurent LANQUAR-CASTIEL notes that both municipal and departmental/regional cycling policies are deplorable: “The Region has abandoned the Train-Bike intermodality plan implemented by the ecologists in the previous mandate. The Department merely aligns useless kilometers of bike paths, i.e., those that start nowhere and end accordingly. Menton, like the entire CARF, lacks any cycling policy, not even a simple painted line on the ground.”
As for Nice, it’s all about appearances: a few months before the cycling cities congress in Nice, some bike lanes were hastily painted but have since been removed, or else, the lane on the Prom’ is not designed for daily travel and causes conflicts between active modes: cyclists disturb the serenity of pedestrians, and pedestrians obstruct cyclists from riding!”
