Toulouse. What if Car Free Day makes a comeback, every first Sunday of the month?
Through Anthony Assemat
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Friday, December 9, 2021, a new City Council will be held in Toulouse with, on the agenda, in particular, the presentation of the initial budget for 2022, the distribution of subsidies, new names of tracks, the consequences of the future low zone. emissions (ZFE) or the reform of 1607 hours in the public service.
The full agenda is to be found on the Toulouse town hall website.
A look back at the controversy around subsidies
This Municipal Council will be the first for the opposition group entitled Alternative municipaliste Citoyenne (AMC), after the split carried out within the Citizen Archipelago. This group consists of François Piquemal, Caroline Honvault, Agathe Roby, Odile Maurin, Aymeric Deheurles and Maxime le Texier.
First, and like the opposition environmental group on Capitol Hill, the AMC group plans to return to the controversy born after the broadcast of a report from the program “Capital”, on M6, Sunday, November 28, 2021 .
According to “Capitale”, in Toulouse, 77% of the 73 associations which benefit from a subsidy of at least 153,000 euros have not published their accounts to the Official newspaper. This therefore represents about fifty associations which would not become in the nails, with among them, nurseries, leisure centers or sports clubs. “We did not wait for ‘Capital’ on this subject,” said Caroline Honvault. “Our old alerts to the town hall have borne fruit since there will be an internal regulation on the criteria for awarding grants. The next working group will meet in April 2022 ″. “In the meantime, we will continue to abstain from deliberations on subsidies because we do not have all the elements in hand to vote. There continues to be a certain opacity and a lack of control, ”adds Aymeric Deheurles.
For François Piquemal, “there are ghettos of wealth in Toulouse”
The elected members of the AMC group returned to the comments made by Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate for the 2022 presidential election, during a primary debate, Tuesday, November 30, 2021. On the set of France 2, evoking “the failure of 62 areas of republican reconquest identified by the government “, she took the example of three districts of France, including that of Mirail, which said in its terms of” areas of absolute lawlessness “, it intends to” eradicate ” during “punch operations”, and if necessary “at a given time”, with “the support of the army”.
For François Piquemal, “there are other lawless areas in Toulouse, such as the Capitol for example. During the previous mandate, three elected officials had to resign, today Laurence Arribagé is entangled in a case (the deputy to Sports of the town hall of Toulouse, and president of the Republicans of Haute-Garonne, is targeted by a judicial investigation, the PLUiH (Plan local d’urbanisme Intercommunal-habitat) has been retoked. Neighborhoods which are for example exempt from the construction of housing Social. At Mirail, there have been deal points for a long time. And the typology of the clientele is not what we think: many come from the beautiful neighborhoods “, tackles the former referent of Dal 31.
They want to restore the day without a car …
At the end of this Municipal Council, the AMC group must submit three wishes : the first on the question of the municipal mutual, which elected officials will want to see extended to a wider public, especially the most precarious people, the second on fuel poverty. And a third on the desire to bring up to date a system abandoned without fanfare or trumpets by the Capitol in 2016: the day without a car.
Established in 2001 by Philippe Douste-Blazy, the car-free day took place every first Sunday of the month and concerned the perimeter of the hypercentre, with the exception of emergency response or local residents, for example. “And it was working pretty well until 2016. But I tried to find out why it had been stopped, I got no response. I will ask the mayor tomorrow… (Friday, December 10, editor’s note), ”explains Aymeric Deheurles, who will present this wish.
… and set up the rotating system in the neighborhoods
He does not understand this decision, “while Toulouse was a pioneer and innovator in this area“. Alternative citizen municipalist proposes this special day, always on the Sunday of the month, but also to set up the system in the same district different from the Pink City according to a rotating system. “The inhabitants could enjoy their streets, their neighborhood without fear. It’s nice, a day without a car! It would be an intelligent system in which everyone would find themselves ”. “It shows that we can do without a car. It would be a good opportunity for Jean-Luc Moudenc to show that he is “the champion of ecology” as he says “, continuation Caroline Honvault.
A Bordeaux (Gironde), the device, renamed “My street breathing”, formerly limited to the city center, now takes place every first Sunday of the month, from 10 am to 6 pm, also in all districts of the city.
Haro on the future rate of extracurricular supervision
Finally, Agathe Roby has planned to challenge the town hall on the evolution of the supervision rate in the extracurricular sector. “The town hall wants to reduce the number of animators 1 for 10 pupils to 1 for 14 pupils in kindergarten, and from 1 in 14 to 1 in 18 in elementary. Everyone asks Marion Lalane de Laubadère (the assistant in charge of education, editor’s note) to reverse this decision. This will degrade the reception conditions of our children, ”believes the elected opposition, taking the example of cities like Amiens (Somme) u Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), “Yet cities of the right but which have kept the same rate of supervision”.
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