Across France, cities are working to organize progressive deconfinement as best as possible from May 11. In Bordeaux, the famous rue Sainte-Catherine will change its face, cut into three sections to regulate the movement of pedestrians and customers.

In Bordeaux, an emblematic place will change its face on Monday: rue Sainte-Catherine, where passers-by normally gather for shopping, will experience traffic restrictions ... for pedestrians. An essential reorganization to avoid proximity and contacts to fight the Covid-19, and the price to pay to reopen stores. Rue Sainte-Catherine is over a kilometer long, almost 10 meters wide, and shops on the right and on the left. A challenge led with the traders who worked with the prefecture and the town hall to find all the possible solutions.

Waiting areas along the façades

As of Monday, no longer a question of wandering from one side to the other, the street will be split into three separate parts. "The two gray zones, as in all the pedestrian streets along the façades, will be transformed into waiting zones to enter the shops", specifies Christian Baulme, president of the Ronde des Quartiers de Bordeaux, an association which brings together Bordeaux merchants .

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They will be marked with two beacons, without an accidental metallic barrier, "to avoid these masses, people who cross from left to right to enter the stores, or who will cut lines," he adds.

CCTV and police intervention

And beware of deliverers who do not respect the new rules, or customers who forget the distances. "We will use video surveillance to be very reactive if we realize that there is a high concentration or that people do not respect distanciations," says Nicolas Florian, mayor of Bordeaux. Be reactive, "with the national and municipal police, and with agents on the spot who here and there will explain to passersby the good use of public space."

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The mayor of Bordeaux also wishes to impose the wearing of a mask, which will in any case be compulsory in many shops.