Since deconfinement, bicycles are increasingly present in cities.

Except that some associations claim that certain rules are not adapted to the practice of the bicycle and plead for an overhaul of the highway code.

Grilling the fires, they said, should be possible.

This is not yet the case. 

This Sunday, there will be no car in many areas of the capital.

Already widely developed under the previous term of Anne Hidalgo, the "car-free days" are once again organized in Paris.

But the context is no longer the same: since the deconfinement, the capital is full of bicycles, to the point that virtual traffic jams are created on the cycle paths.

The increase in the number of cyclists has been estimated at more than 70% in one year in Paris, enough to create many tensions with motorists, especially on the issue of non-compliance with traffic lights.

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"I understand that some see fires as a give way."

We have all seen it: a cyclist who crosses the crossroads like an arrow, another who looks to the left, to the right if there is no one there and goes there.

Xavier also sees them do it, dismayed.

"Me, I never run red lights", he affirms at the microphone of Europe 1. "I made a question of principle, to give the most positive image possible of the cyclists."  

However, some cyclists explain that it makes sense to go through a red light on a bicycle.

"As much incivility towards pedestrians is absolutely inadmissible on the part of cyclists, so much traffic lights have been designed to optimize the flow of cars and therefore they are not very compatible with the practice of cycling", says Olivier Schneider on Europe 1. The president of the Federation of Bicycle Users understands that cyclists, "at certain times, even if this is not permitted, regard traffic lights as a give-of-way."

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An offense resulting in a fixed fine of 135 €

According to him, grilling a fire "is shocking because we have been conditioned to look at the color of fire, but in reality, it is not these behaviors that are dangerous!"

His argument has come a long way with certain associations, which are now pleading to transform stop signs into give way for bicycles.

The idea could materialize within a few months in some cities.

In the meantime, disregarding a red light on a bicycle remains an offense resulting in a fixed fine of € 135.

It is the same fine as for a car, but without loss of points.