Tram on the extension of line F. Strasbourg on 08/27 2020. -

G. Varela / 20 Minutes

  • The Covid-19 has changed our lives, and our modes of transport.

    The new municipalities elected in June also wish to rethink traffic in city centers, which will not be without consequences for future projects of urban networks.

  • In Strasbourg, this requires massive investments, because mobility is the heart of the policy of the future mandate of the environmental team.

  • It can rely on an already large network mesh and numerous subscriptions which have made it possible not to suffer too long the fall in traffic during confinement.

He is ultimately the real regulator of the Strasbourg Transport Company (CTS).

The Covid-19 has been speeding up passenger traffic on urban trams and buses for a year, without however succeeding in paralyzing it.

Although the spring containment caused a loss of its passenger traffic of

35

 %,

the network has good prospects for a return to normal.

The network was indeed a spectacular rise to reach, from the month of May, 85% to 90% of the normal.

A very encouraging result, partly explained by a network provided by the existing network but also by its "146,000 subscribers, or 30% of the population of the Eurometropolis", explains Alain Jund, president of the CTS and deputy mayor of Strasbourg .

Subscribers but also travelers who regularly use the network which can boast of being able to count on 470,000 trips per day and free measures on Sundays in December and weekends in September to help traders in the city center.

If the financial losses recorded in 2020 are however around 23 to 25 million euros, for a budget usually around 130 million euros, investments are more than ever on the agenda.

They “even change scale,” assures Alain Jund.

We will strongly develop the pace of investments, ie 230 million euros over the next five years just for the three new lines or extension of the tram and a new high level of service bus line [BRT] ”.

Stay the course

The ecologists, newly in charge, both of the city but also of the Eurometropolis, have free rein and intend to put the package on public transport and the encouragement of soft modes of mobility.

“Responding to the health emergency does not go without responding to the climate emergency”, continues the elected official.

And the prospect of setting up a ZFE (low emissions zone) from 2025 reinforces this need to stay the course to offer real alternatives to the car.

Our dossier Rethinking transport

Extension of the tram line or new lines, purchase of 49 electric buses, electric shuttles for on-demand transport which will be extended from March to the whole of the city, multimodal transport hub, free service announced for children under 18 years ... To this must be added 100 million euros on the mandate for the development of new cycle paths and road works "to reduce discontinuities and make travel safer", adds the community.

Purchase premiums for electric bikes of up to 500 euros for all residents of the 33 municipalities of Eurometrople.

Made-to-measure aimed essentially at getting the inhabitants of the first and second ring of the agglomeration in the saddle to let go of their car.

The mobility policy of the new municipality ensures that it invests to respond to the climate emergency and "change the era to change the air".

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