The city of Caen (Calvados) is leading or planning several building sites major road works in 2022. And no less controversial fact, or as much consensus, including at the municipal council, as the redevelopment of the trough streetspread over three phases until May 2024.

The first phase, the most substantial, extends from rue Saint-Michel to the station. It should be completed by Christmas. It progresses in stages.

One-way street Saint-Michel all summer long

Several follow one another this summer, each time modifying the traffic plan. We take stock, step by step:

• Until Monday July 4, the interventions on the drinking water, sanitation and evacuation networks on rue Saint-Michel and the pavements erected around the roundabout, located on this side of the SNCF bridge, imply the closure access to rue de l’Arquette and rue des Tonneliers, where parking is removed, and also the one-way passage from rue Saint-Michel from the Bir Hakeim bridge to Vaucelles (it remains in this configuration until mid -september ). Work is also beginning on the former car park reserved for light commercial vehicle rental companies near the station square, transformed into a skate park;
• the following week, until Monday July 11, rue de l’Arquette is reopened to two-way traffic. This is where traffic is diverted from rue de la Chaussée ferrée, which was closed for five days;
• then, by the end of July, rue des Tonneliers and rue de la Chaussée ferrée will be reopened to traffic, and rue de l’Arquette will be one-way;
• finally, for a month and a half, from the beginning of August to mid-September, only rue Saint-Michel remains one-way. Main difference, the parking is neutralized on the side of the odd numbers. In the meantime, new beige asphalt will be laid on the Vaucelles square and the protected cycle path at the bottom of rue d’Auge.

The second phase not before 2023

The City of Caen warns users of this sector, “the data is likely to change during construction”.

The second phase of the redevelopment of rue d’Auge must go up from rue de la Gare to rue de Grentheville, for seven months, from January to July 2023.

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