Toulouse. A day of reflection and proposals around mobility
Saturday March 19, 2022, many Toulouse associations are organizing a day of reflection and proposals. The theme of the forum: mobility for the territory of Toulouse Métropole.
Moving while combining practicality and good for the environment? This is the objective of the mobility forum. Many environmental and citizen associations are organizing a day of reflection and proposals around Toulouse mobility this Saturday March 19 from 10 a.m. ” The corn ? Bring together around the table the expertise and experiences of users in order to work on a mobility plan for the territory of Toulouse Métropole that is both good for the environment and practical for the inhabitants!”, explain the press release organizers.
A mobility forum organized after many debates on transport
The associations involved are as follows: Alternative, Friends of the Earth, Autate, Ax Vert la Ramée, City Makers, FNE-MP and 2 Pieds 2 Roues. In the press release, they put the question of transport forward. In particular with the third metro line or the establishment of the Low Emissions Zone (ZFE) which is debated in Toulouse.
“If this subject is so central, especially for associations fighting for the climate, it is because transport weighs very heavily in the ecological balance sheet of the Toulouse metropolis: it represents nearly 52% of our gas emissions at greenhouse effect (GHG)”, specify the associations. They add: “However, to fight against global warming, it is these emissions that we must drastically reduce in order to contain the global warming of the planet to a level that remains livable”.
The situation of the increase in the price of gasoline is also a factor put forward by the organizers of the forum. They specify that according to an IPSOS survey, “39% of the inhabitants of the Toulouse conurbation felt that they could do without their car now if they “really wanted to”. There is therefore an opportunity to quickly initiate a mobility transformation plan in Toulouse”.
The program of the forum for Saturday March 19
Faced with these findings, the associations are organizing this day of reflection and proposals at 24 rue du Général Ferrié. In the program :
- Mornings from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: workshops are offered in the form of a game entitled “2 tons”. They propose to the participants per team to try to limit climate change through various actions. The goal is to achieve an average of 2 tons of carbon emissions per year and per person (the French average is 10 tons per year and per person). A second workshop format entitled “the Fresco of mobility” will also be offered in the morning.
- In the afternoon, from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: a forum dedicated to travel in Toulouse and its agglomeration aims to share ideas, imagine solutions and outline a plan for the transformation of Toulouse mobility for the 20 or next 30 years. It takes the form of two series of workshops, one on the different modes of transport (cycling, walking, RER, public transport, etc.) and the other on cross-cutting transport themes (financing, space sharing urban, intermodality, raising awareness of inhabitants, etc.). Each workshop will have the mission of formulating more or less long-term proposals and actions to enrich a common temporal fresco. The result can serve as a basis for designing a new Urban Travel Plan (PDU).
The associations “hope to bring out concrete solutions to improve the transport situation in Toulouse, but also to be heard by the political authorities” thanks to this forum.