- The municipal elections are held on March 15 and 22, 2020. Each week, 20 Minutes tackles a theme of the campaign. Today, transport.
- Even if this competence is devolved to the metropolis, the candidates for mayor are directly confronted with the question.
- New modes of public transport, air or river, are emerging this year in the countryside.
How to best mesh the Lyon conurbation in the years to come? This is the question that the eight candidates for the municipal elections in Lyon are facing even if transport is a skill, mainly devolved to the metropolis. Today, the problem goes far beyond the borders of the capital of Gaul, which is fairly well served by public transport, except for the western part of the city.
The challenge now is to efficiently and quickly connect the cities of the inner suburbs which are concentrating more and more inhabitants who cannot afford to live in the center of Lyon or who prefer to flee the bustle of the city, in which however, they come to work daily. And in this area, progress is expected
. More metros or more trams?
“If we want to regulate the entry of cars into the city of Lyon and if we want to anticipate pollution peaks, we need to have efficient public transport. This is one of the essential conditions for achieving this, ”analyzes Georges Képénékian, dissident candidate LREM, who notably promises the extension of the metro line D in Limonest in one direction, and Porte des Alpes in the other and a connection between lines B and C at Caluire. As well as the creation of a T7 tram line between the Gerland district and the Vénissieux station. The solution, according to him, also involves a more clever use of the metro. "We should be able to increase the frequency and subways and the transport capacity of each train on weekday evenings but also on weekends," he argues.
For Etienne Blanc, LR candidate, "the real answer to bring" is the metro. "Because it has the advantage of being underground, he believes, stressing, however," the errors "of the previous mandates. Why does the metro run into Perrache? This now requires users to get off at the station and take the tram to go up the Cours Charlemagne. There is a break in load which generates individual traffic ”. And to add: “The idea is to make as many metros as possible. Even if it is expensive, it is essential. When you have subways, you develop mobility ”.
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Also convinced that abandoning the car in the city center would be possible if a "reliable and comfortable alternative" is offered to citizens, Denis Broliquier, centrist candidate and outgoing mayor of the 2nd arrondissement promises an "exceptional investment plan" of 1 , 6 billion euros, against 1 billion invested during the last mandate. "If we go through borrowing, the objective is achievable," he continues, indicating that this would notably extend line B to the gates of Brignais in "buried mode" and extend line D to the urban boulevard Sud in order to get as close as possible to the cities of Corbas and Feyzin.
Yann Cucherat (LREM-Modem) intends to "respect" the projects launched by Gérard Collomb, namely to achieve by 2030 the E line of the metro which would connect the city of Tassin to the Part-Dieu station. And extend line B to the A450 and the D to Meyzieu by a few stations.
For the national gathering and its candidate Agnès Marion, the priority would be to open up the eastern suburbs by also extending metro A to Décines and Meyzieu, since eventually to Lyon airport. But there is no question of rolling the oars all night.
Anxious not to explode the budgets, Grégory Doucet (EELV) announces that it will not make any great realization concerning the subway. Only that he will conduct studies to see how to extend the future line E, if it is also possible to push line B to Rillieux-la-Pape and add a few stations on the route of line D to serve the Vaise Industry district. His priority, he says, is to "intensify the main existing bus lines", to increase the bus offer by 20% "and to develop new tram lines: the T7 which would link Bellecour to Vaulx-en -Velin passing through the Hôtel-Dieu and the Part-Dieu and the T 8, a kind of “bypass tramway” which would ensure the link between the industrial area of Gerland and the town of Vaulx-en-Velin via Décines , Bron and Vénissieux. "We should no longer think of the new star lines to the center of Lyon, but on the contrary, plan for lines that would serve the periphery," he explains.
A point of view shared by Sandrine Runel. The candidate of the United Left defends the idea of a “surface circular metro” that would oppose the classic lines converging through the hypercentre of Lyon. His project would be to go to the gates of the inhabitants of Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon, Tassin and Ecully, who can now only rely on bus lines, and to connect these cities to Saint-Fons (to the south) then at the Doua campus in Villeurbanne without going through downtown Lyon. Estimated cost: 900 million euros for 40 kilometers of journey.
The solution by air?
Deemed impractical or even wacky six years ago, the mode of public transport by air is now popular with candidates. Denis Broliquier now carries the idea of an "aerotram", which was prompted by his running mate Eric Lafond. The system studied would make it possible to “cross the hills” by transporting “5,000 travelers one way and the other, per hour”. "It is as much as the future E line of the metro and it is a much higher offer than those of the tram," argues the outgoing mayor of the 2nd arrondissement, specifying that there could be 3 connections: Perrache-Francheville, Croix- Rousse-Cité Internationale and La Duchère-Ecully.
Grégory Doucet advocates for a “gondola” system. The environmental candidate promises to carry out one, in consultation with the city, to connect the West, "one of the most underserved parts of the agglomeration".
The waterway?
If he does not include air transport in his program, Georges Képénékian prefers to opt for waterways by promising shuttles on the Rhône and the Saône, which will be "integrated into the TCL network". The objective: to link Confluence to Abigny-sur-Saône on one side and Gerland to the Doua campus on the other. “The navigation speed, now 8 km / h, will be increased to 20 km / h. Eight river shuttles will run on the river network and express shuttles will be offered during peak hours, ”he says. He is not the only one to share the idea: Etienne Blanc, Agnès Marion, Grégory Doucet, Denis Broliquier and Yann Cucherat also offer this solution in their programs.
Should transportation be free?
The principle is ardently defended by Olivier Minoux (LO) and Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert, the outgoing mayor of the 1st arrondissement, leader of the Lyon en Commun list. "It should be applied gradually, first on weekends, first for young people and then, stay the course so that by 2026, all public transport will be free for all," he explains. she. Aware that the “city of Lyon cannot impose this alone”, she recommends “weighing in” to convince decision-makers. "Communities and businesses, which will no longer have to pay half the subscription of their employees to allow this free by participating financially in the operation of Sytral," she argues.
Other candidates, such as Denis Broliquier, Sandrine Runel, Georges Képénékian, Grégory Doucet say they are free for children or for beneficiaries of social minima while Etienne Blanc offers a 30% reduction on subscriptions "from in order to support the middle and working classes and the most peripheral districts ”. Yann Cucherat, on the other hand, is firmly opposed to this idea. "Free public transport would be heresy, in my opinion it is demagoguery. If we want to continue investing in tram and metro lines, we need money generated by tickets and subscriptions, ”he concludes.
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