these streets which will remain at 50 km / h |
On March 30, 2022, the speed will be lowered to 30 km / h in the vast majority of streets in Lyon, on the occasion of the passage in “Vhe 30“Some major axes will nevertheless remain at 50 km / h, such as the quays or the Berthelot and Garibaldi avenues.
Three months before the transition from Lyon to “Ville 30”, on March 30, 2022, details of this much talked about measure are impatiently awaited by Lyon motorists, eager to know which streets in the city will be affected by this reduction in traffic. speed. So far, the mayor of Lyon had remained rather vague on the subject, his deputy for mobility
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Present Thursday, January 6 on the set of BFM Lyon, Grégory Doucet formalized this information while lifting the veil a little more on this new speed map in Lyon. “There are still some trade-offs, but obviously the M6, M7, the Croix-Rousse tunnel are not affected, that the platforms will remain at 50 km / h, such as the cours Gambetta, the avenue Berthelot, the Garibaldi avenue. These major axes extremely circulating will remain at 50, I did not give you the complete list, but there are also some other axes “, detailed the ecologist councilor.
“The standard will be 30 km / h“
A few months ago, Valentin Lungenstrass summed up the concept of City 30 as follows: “City 30, as a reminder, is to reverse the logic. Say to yourself, 30km / h is the base in town. And some axes, major axes, selected which remain at 50 km / h. It’s not like a zone 30 where you define a small zone where the speed limit is 30km / h. The logic is reversed “. What Grégory Doucet confirms by warning that from March 30, 2022, “the norm will be 30 km / h “.
The idea behind this paradigm shift is to “reduce the number of deaths and injuries in this city, assures the mayor of Lyon. All the towns that have moved into town 30, and there are many of them in France and in Europe, have seen their accidentology down by 30 to 40% overall. It’s not nothing. It is lives saved thanks to this passage and it is the objective that we have given ourselves “, argues Grégory Doucet.
Many cities of the Metropolis
During its transition to “Ville 30”, Lyon will join five other municipalities of the Metropolis of Lyon which have already taken the plunge, Oullins, Poleymieux-au-Mont-d’Or, Fontaines-Saint-Martin, Couzon-au-Mont -d’Or and Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or. The mayor of Écully also confirmed to us at the beginning of the week that his municipality will also lower the speed to 30 in these streets soon.
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On the rest of the Lyon Metropolis, at least 21 other cities are listed by this measure which must, in addition “reduce accidents“, allows to “give priority to pedestrians“, estimates Fabien Bagnon, the vice-president of the Metropolis in charge of the roads.
By the end of his term in 2026, the majority at the head of Greater Lyon “would like 2/3 of the inhabitants of the metropolis reside in a municipality at 30 km / h“, as Fabien Bagnon explained to us a few months ago. Among the other municipalities listed, we find the towns of Villeurbanne, Bron, Givors, Saint-Genis-Laval or Neuville-sur-Saône.