In Paris, on a bike, over the cars, sang Joe Dassin in “The lament of the “rush hour” in 1972. Almost fifty years after, Paris Anne Hidalgo is more than never that of the bicycle and aspires to become the “world capital of the bicycle.” In Paris, the cyclist is king: the bicycle plan (2015-2020) the city council plans to double the number of kilometres of bike lanes by next year. Cost of project: € 63 million, says the Journal du Dimanche. These new trails will be decorated with approximately 10,000 new locations to park bicycles. “2019 will be the year of the bike parking,” says Christophe Najdovski, deputy EELV Anne Hidalgo.
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information secure, three types of devices will be deployed in Paris: the city council will be in charge of vélobox – garages of five meters on both of them can accommodate five to six bikes – and vélostations, instructions of large capacity that will be installed in the railway stations (Montparnasse, gare de Lyon, and gare du Nord. Île-de-France Mobility will Véligo. The price of these services? Eight to ten euros per month, and twenty euros per year for Véligo, accessible only to holders of a Navigo pass. Valérie Pécresse has expressed to Anne Hidalgo is planning to create 7000 seat labeled Véligo, in the framework of its “regional strategy” bike.
The notion of “security” at the heart of these developments
Thanks to all these facilities, parisians and ile-de-france can put their bike in the shelter. Weather conditions, and malignancies. Because the security of the bikes is at the heart of these developments. “All the studies show that the fear of theft and vandalism is the second obstacle to the use of the bicycle in the city, just after the road insecurity; that is to say the lack of cycling tracks” secure, accurate and to the JDD Simon Labouret, a spokesman for Paris in the saddle, the main association of cyclists of the capital, who work a lot to ensure the safety of users of bike.
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Because the disrespect and insecurity are the two points where the rub when we talk about cycling to Paris. Since the month of October last, a room of video-recording has been set in motion… and sleep permanently on the streets of Paris and on the behaviour of road users. The agents of this unit of video-recording have put a fine to more than 27,000 vehicles. More than 4000 minutes have been prepared, via 900 cameras for “non-compliance of the cycle trails” and 3800 for “stop to fire a sas bike.” Currently, the agents verbal about 3000 vehicles per week on average.
