Mobility: things are moving! : the proposals of the Citizen Mobilities Committee
The seventeen inhabitants of the Metropolis gathered within the Citizen Mobilities Committee have made their proposals concerning the evolution of travel on the territory.
As part of the renewal of its Mobility Plan (PDM), the Metropolis has launched a major consultation for its inhabitants on travel within the territory. For several weeks, 17 volunteer metropolitan citizens met in a Citizen Mobilities Committee in order to share their experiences, discuss the ambitions to be set and work on concrete action proposals that will improve mobility on the territory of the Rouen Normandie metropolitan area. On Saturday 11 December, these volunteers presented their 18 citizens ‘proposals to elected officials of the Metropolis and handed over their contribution to the community, in the presence of Eloise Leurette, a major witness of the citizens’ convention for the climate.
Here are the 18 proposals that were unveiled and detailed to elected officials and the public present, both physically and online:
Increase awareness and support the change in practices
1. Create a mobility application
2. Develop a metropolitan car-sharing service in peri-urban areas
3. Set up a subsidy for the purchase or repair of a bicycle
4. Make school a springboard for soft mobility
5. Develop bicycle rental services and experiment with the rental of electric scooters on demand
6. Integrate the challenges of soft mobility in the world of work
To better share public space in favor of soft mobility
7. Pedestrianize the city center of Rouen
8. Appease and secure the surroundings of schools
9. Develop meeting areas
10. Increase the quantity of street furniture and revegetate the streets
11. Encourage cycling through the quality and security of facilities
To develop the use of public transport
12. Upgrade TEORs to tramways and FASTs to TEORs
13. Convert existing TER lines into metropolitan RER
14. Make public transport more welcoming, safer and more functional
15. Develop relay car parks and carpooling areas in conjunction with transport lines
structuring
16. Extend the fare offer for public transport to families
17. Increase frequencies and broaden schedules
18. Develop the river shuttle.
The members of the “Mobilities” Citizen Committee, set up by the Rouen Normandy Metropolis as part of the “Mobilities: it’s on the move! », Wrote a detailed report which they presented and handed over to elected officials during this morning.
These 17 citizens who make up the Committee were selected from among 200 candidates so as to constitute a group representative of the diversity of points of view of the inhabitants of the Metropolis.
The composition of the group must respect the following principles:
- Maximum representativeness of the inhabitants of the Metropolis on socio-demographic criteria (gender, age group, socio-professional category, type of housing occupation, family composition, size of the municipality of residence)
- A diversity of frequencies of use of different modes of travel (car, bicycle, motorized two-wheelers, public transport, carpooling, walking): each of these modes is used daily by one or more citizens, none of these modes is is never used by any of the 17 citizens.
- A spatial distribution representative of the different geographic sectors of the Metropolis.
The citizens gathered during three working weekends from September to November. They are part of the desire to bring a new and future vision of what tomorrow’s mobility could be by working on practical proposals for improving and modifying the current system on the basis of their and experiences.
The role of this Citizens’ Committee was to feed the reflection of the Rouen Normandy Metropolis with a view to the realization of the Mobility Plan (PDM) which commits it over the next ten years and beyond. The 18 proposals in the report will thus be analyzed by elected officials and adapted according to their feasibility.
A public consultation on mobility that will continue until spring 2022
Everyone, on a daily basis, can make changes and turn to more active, gentler and more environmentally friendly mobility. To think about the mobility of tomorrow and act now, the Metropolis is opening a major citizen debate on mobility.
This approach, supported by citizen participation, has the following objectives:
- long-term planning for transformations via the Mobility Plan (PDM) and the development of the use of active mobility (cycling, walking, etc.).
- improve and develop the city’s public transport network, as well as the on-demand transport service.
- participate in the implementation of the commitments of the COP21 in terms of clean transport and defining the low-emission zones and the accompanying measures for these, in particular for financially fragile populations.
- to adapt land use planning according to transport and allow everyone to have a means of transport nearby for short or longer journeys
- to promote innovation in terms of mobility (new engines, intelligent mobility, low-carbon mobility, digital uses).
It will extend, for its first phase, until spring 2022. A regulatory consultation phase will follow until the adoption of the Mobility Plan (PDM) at the end of 2022. The Mobility Plan (PDM) of the Metropolis includes many building blocks to organize, plan and transform mobility: reconfiguration of the public transport network, transport on demand (Filo’r), Master Plan for Active Mobility, Metropolitan Low Emission Zones (ZFE-m), evaluation of the Territorial Coherence (SCoT), local COP 21, Company Travel Plan (PDE), Living Lab Mobility, New Paris Normandy Line (LNPN) …
Follow all the news of the citizen consultation “Mobilités: ça bouge” on https://jeparticipe.metropole-rouen-normandie.fr/concertation-publique/mobilites-ca-bouge .