Faced with the overcrowding, cars will no longer be tolerated at Cap Croisette, emblematic place of the Calanques -

Mathilde Ceilles / 20 Minutes

  • This Wednesday, the board of directors of the Calanques National Park decided to prohibit access to Cap Croisette by cars.

  • This measure in this emblematic Marseille place of the Calanques is supposed to fight against the overcrowding of the site.

  • Residents complain, however, that this ban is not accompanied by others to relieve congestion in the surroundings.

This is the first concrete measure introduced by the Calanques National Park, in the face of its growing overcrowding.

This Wednesday, at the end of its board of directors, the park definitively prohibited the access of cars to one of its most famous settings, at the gates of Marseille: the Cap Croisette.

Located in the eighth arrondissement, behind the remote and authentic village called Les Goudes, this isolated corner by the sea, with a breathtaking view of the Phocaean city in the distance, had become, especially since the last confinement, an increasingly popular with Marseillais in need of fresh air.

"We were faced with visitors who sometimes parked illegally in natural areas," said François Bland, director of the Calanques National Park.

And it was nature that paid the price for this unauthorized parking.

"Concretely, the barrier installed last year at the exit of Goudes will be definitively closed" for the Easter weekend ", promises Didier Réault, LR vice-president of the Metropolis in charge of the coast and the sea and president of the Park.

"It's gonna be just hell"

A measure that is not without worrying residents, especially in Goudes, which adjoins the site.

“The problem is that when they see that there is no parking, they will come and park there, just before, in Les Goudes, Angélique plague.

This barrier is useless.

People, they force the passage.

In two years, I found myself with a new laminated car!

Scooters kick to get through.

!

There, it's gonna be just hell!

Above all, there should be more parking lots, earlier, for cars!

"

Indeed, as for years, at present, only a low frequency bus serves this site, and the parking lots are few and of low efficiency, creating these anarchic parking lots.

"To unclog the site, everyone should sit around the table, instead of taking this kind of measures," laments Guy Barotto, president of the federation of CIQ of the 8th arrondissement.

"A signal to visitors"

"I will answer you frankly," annoys Didier Réault.

I don't care, the guys who come here, whether they go elsewhere.

What we want first of all is not to damage nature.

It is a signal that we give to visitors.

"" Everything that goes towards reducing automobile pressure on this sector of the city is a good thing, both for the park but also for the inhabitants, estimates Pierre Benarroche, mayor of the 6th and 8th arrondissement from the district. Marseille spring.

People are not going to park in Les Goudes, since the site is saturated anyway.

The Napoleon parking lot is full.

So that's always between 60 and 80 cars less in the Calanques park.

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And to launch: “We are ready to launch a policy of verbalizing anarchic parking, but that should not be the only tool.

The metropolis must also develop the public transport offer.

"A project that the LR president of the metropolis, Martine Vassal, said she was ready to develop ... on condition that the city fights against anarchic parking in this part of the Calanques.

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