In Marseille, illegal parking on La Plaine angers local residents
By Arthur Sabatier
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Jacques Rouillard has lived in the La Plaine district for more than 15 years, he has been a member of a local residents’ collective since its creation three years ago.
He does not express himself in favor of a police “omnipresent everywhere” but, he is tired of seeing that the streets of his district have “large number of cameras” and “that no PV is given” to people who park in the middle of a freshly pedestrianized space.
A space not as pedestrian as expected
“It must be said that before the work, it was even worse,” he admits. The square was a giant parking lot, an “open-air jungle”. But Jacques is disappointed to see that despite the rehabilitation of the place, ” the municipal police still do not take hold of the traffic problems or urban rodeos”.
With the collective “Les riparians de La Plaine”, he regularly brings these problems to the ears of elected officials, but the sharing of skills between the town hall and the region complicates things.
“It is not by installing terminals that it will change things”
“The town hall replies that it is not their competence and the metropolis promises access control by early May“, period when the La Plaine market should reopen.
Or, in his eyes, there is no point in waiting for the showmen to arrive. He also does not think that it is “by installing bollards to prevent cars from passing that it will change things”. »
For good reason, such terminals have already been put in place, and “they were destroyed very quickly”.
According to him, “we must put in human resources, without the municipal police, nothing will stop people from parking where they want or scooters from crossing the square”. What’s more, the main rodeo venue is a stone’s throw from a children’s playground.
“The problem is not that dramatic”
For the owner of one of the bars in this area, “the problem is not that dramatic”. He opened his establishment 10 months ago and he was really bothered by a vehicle only once. He recalls that “the person hadn’t applied his handbrake so we had been able to move his van to install the terrace“.
He concedes, however, that he has never seen the terminals supposed to prevent vehicles from accessing the pedestrian area in working order. He had even “forgot their existence”.
Jacques points out all the same the fact that “the terraces of the bars and restaurants are delimited to be able to be evacuated in five minutes by the firefighters. With the type of parking I see all the time, I don’t see how that’s possible. »
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