In Entzheim, south of Strasbourg, the company Freshmile, met in November 2017, designs electric car charging stations.
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Bruno Poussard / 20 Minutes
Like a chain reaction.
After the city of Strasbourg, it is the turn of the Eurometropolis to declare a state of climate emergency.
This will be done officially at the next council this Friday.
According to the executive, this symbolic act will now be translated into a call to the “Climate Alliance”.
The idea is to "mobilize a network of actors who want to act," explains Pia Imbs, president of Eurometrople.
This appeal made "to the living forces of each municipality", to companies, associations, institutions, residents of the Strasbourg agglomeration, is not only intended to debate in the four think tanks that will be set up. but above all to initiate concrete actions.
Concrete?
The council should validate the creation of the Climate Agency this Friday.
An agency already provided for by the former mandate as part of the climate plan.
Associative type, it will be at the service of everyone, from the simple citizen to the municipalities.
The objective is "to have a one-stop-shop," explains Danielle Dambach, Vice-President of the Eurometropolis.
The requests would then be dispatched to qualified multi-thematic referents.
»The goal is to benefit from technical, financial and administrative support, energy renovations, renewable energies, waste management, etc. As well as answering questions about everyday mobility, transport, but also making proposals, anything is possible… “A place for meetings and exchanges to learn about and promote all initiatives.
Everyone must take their part in this climate emergency, ”insists Pia Imbs.
The effective establishment of this agency should take place in early 2021, once the statutes have been filed.
On the budget side, for now, it remains to be defined ...
Mobility
“Very concretely”, insists Pia Imbs, the issue of mobility and limiting the use of the car.
On-demand transport, tested by Robert Herrmann, former president of the Eurometropolis, will be deployed in the inner suburbs.
Thus all 33 municipalities will be “served”.
For your information, before the Covid crisis, small on-demand shuttles transported a thousand people per week, 34% of whom went from one municipality to another and 42% to reach the tram, a TER or a bus line conventional.
"The experiment is crowned with real success," says Pia Imbs.
About twenty small electric shuttles, for 9 people and able to transport one or two attached bicycles, will be purchased before being deployed in all the municipalities and sometimes even beyond if necessary.
In particular to reach an activity or industrial zone.
The network will therefore expand to meet growing demand “without asking for new developments,” says Alain Jund.
The timing will increase as will the number of stops and the time slots which will be extended from 5 a.m. to midnight.
The operating costs amount to 3 million euros and will be included in the subsidies made (120 million euros per year) to the Compagnie des transports strasbourgeois (CTS).
"It is an acceptable cost in view of the service offered to the inhabitants" estimates Alain Jund, vice-president of transport of the Eurometropolis in charge of mobility.
Another "concrete action" initially, the deployment of charging stations, entrusted to the company Freshmile, for electric and hybrid vehicles in all the municipalities of the agglomeration.
This represents around 90 stations, or nearly 150 public charging points.
All will be discussed with the mayors to find the best location, but "each municipality will have at least one charging station" promises Alain Jund.
These should be installed from 2021 until the end of the first half of 2022.
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