• On April 8, the town hall of Nice announced that the bottom of Boulevard Gambetta would no longer be accessible to cyclists and buses.

  • Neighborhood associations are calling for new discussions to find solutions to the problem of deported traffic flows.

The omnipresent president of the district committee of the Parc Impérial-Gambetta does not disarm.

After demonstrations organized last year against this project, Eric Fouzari recently returned to the charge, complaining to the mayor of Nice of his "stubbornness concerning the cycle path of Boulevard Gambetta".

After the launch of an experiment last year, the town hall had stopped, on April 8, and after a consultation with the record participation according to it, the new definitive development of this axis.

To the south, a two-way cycle path, therefore, but also a new line of public transport on its own site (TCSP).

With, in the end, motorists asked to go through other routes.

"There is no longer any debate about maintaining a cycle path: 67% of residents said they were in favor", argued the mayor.

The adjacent streets "saturated from morning to night"

“That there are axles for the bikes is not the problem. The problem is that the road traffic has logically transferred to the adjacent streets without anything being planned on this subject, ”worries Eric Fouzari, joined by Roger Prunet, the president of the neighboring neighborhood committee of the Musicians. . According to them, these streets in question are found "saturated from morning to night" with an average of "1,200 vehicles per hour".

Their petition launched two months ago to “save our neighborhoods on the verge of asphyxiation” had mobilized around 750 signatories on Change.org on Sunday.

"And, in total, nearly 2,000 by adding door to door", according to the association manager.

He regrets that this project was stopped "in a hurry".

The choice validated by the town hall had also been deemed "worrying" by the RN opposition.

"No impact study has been undertaken on the postponement of vehicles in parallel arteries", had advanced municipal councilors Jean Moucheboeuf and Philippe Vardon.

Reopen to rue de France?

"We must start a real consultation on this specific problem to find solutions", continues Eric Fouzari.

And to recommend to “reopen, at least, to road traffic as far as the rue de France.

This would already free a certain number of streets impacted by the nuisances.

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, the municipality of Nice recalls that it conducted "regulatory public consultation, as provided for by the Town Planning Code" with "530 messages received".

She also announced that the TCSP, which will occupy a large area at the bottom of Boulevard Carnot, will also be subject to "public consultation from September 2021."

In the meantime, Eric Fouzari indicates that he must be received by the deputy mayor Philippe Pradal on Tuesday.

And he hopes to quickly receive proposals, or at least the promise of further discussions.

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