An association asks for simple and urgent arrangements to secure the surroundings of schools
This time, the parents of the students wanted to challenge the city and the metropolis with “factual data”. The MPE13 association has thus compiled nearly 150 testimonies to draw up an inventory of the security situation in the vicinity of schools in Marseille. This gives a fairly precise mapping of the needs of 60 schools and a few colleges, covering all sectors of the city. “It is a low range, it is only on the basis of what our members have given us, there are undoubtedly many more establishments concerned”, notes Séverine Gil, president of this association which, since her created in 2014, is at the forefront of the vast subject of Marseille schools.
School by school, the document lists the accommodations requested. Here, a sign “School”, there a traffic light or a speed bump. When it is not the three cumulative. That is to say “the most critical situations, where the child is endangered”. “We wanted very simple things, quick to achieve, which will not revolutionize the problem but indicate the presence of children,” indicates Séverine Gil. We already want to bring every approach to school up to standard, even if it is necessary in several places to rethink the width of the sidewalks and the roads. “
“For the moment it’s the one-way ticket! “
In the metropolis, MPE13 met Roland Giberti, mayor of Gémenos and president of the council of Territoire Marseille Provence. “We asked to know the list of the work carried out in 2021 on the voted budget, and to tell us, on the basis of our study, what they could do urgently before the end of December, and before the programming of the budget 2022 ”, continues Séverine Gil. The association is still assisting the return promised for the day after the All Saints holidays. “I will talk about dialogue when we have it, for the moment it is the one-way ticket,” says the president. Solicited by 20 minutes, Roland Giberti did not respond to our interview request, as did the metropolis.
On the city side, initiatives have been launched in schools, such as the “small pedestrians” system for which the city is still seeking to recruit retired seniors to register pedestrian entrances at the entrances and exits of crossings. And many parents are still waiting to see the color of yellow vests. “We cannot maintain a whole security policy with a device like that, we are waiting for a large-scale security plan”, launches Séverine Gil, who does not hide either “the incivility of certain motorist parents who park anywhere ”, even systematically burning the fire and endangering pedestrian parents and their children.
The “children’s street” in the school plan for the future
“The situations, the problematic schools, we know them”, assures her side Sophie Guérard, elected in charge of the place of the child in the city, who notes that “90% of the problems depend on the metropolis”. “The development of the” street for children “will enter into the plan of the school of the future,” she explains, hoping to have more control over the subject.
Ultimately, “the idea is to semi-pedestrian commuting, at school entry and exit times, when possible,” she explains. Before that, she wants to put in place “signage near schools common to the whole city”, with in particular a coloring of street furniture, and the speed limit to 30 km / h, “when possible”. Without advancing a precise date yet for this first phase.