Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) became in 2019 the second city in France, after Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), to experiment with counting traffic lights for pedestrians.
Installed at three test points, these lights seem to have proven themselves.
The municipality has indeed decided to generalize this system on its main traffic axes from 2023, reports
Le Parisien
.
A ministerial decree authorizing this location had already been published this summer.
Apart from derogation, this system allowing to know the duration in seconds remaining before the light changes color was previously prohibited in France.
However, it is already widespread in Germany, Canada and Vietnam.
When these lights were set up in Neuilly, some pedestrians had however believed that the crossing time had been shortened, a sign of a difference in perceptions.
The DVD mayor Jean-Christophe Fromantin was delighted with the “feeling of security” generated by the devices.
In addition to these devices, mixed pedestrian-cycle lights will also be tested on the service roads of Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle during 2023.
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