• For several weeks, taxis have been mobilizing in Montpellier so that the Metropolis authorizes them to use mixed lanes, reserved for buses and bicycles.

  • The Montpellier Metropolis now authorizes them to use certain bus lanes, in two sections, but only to reach the main health centers.

  • For Xavier Renard, the spokesperson for the Federation of Independent Taxis (FTI) of Hérault, this decision by the community is "a good step forward".

For several weeks, taxis have been mobilizing in Montpellier (Hérault) so that the Metropolis authorizes them to use mixed lanes, reserved for buses and bicycles. An economic necessity, but also with regard to the service rendered to the population, for its representatives. “We transport the elderly, who cannot have access to public transport, confided to

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, on April 14, Eric Déjean, president of the National Federation of Artisan Taxis (FNAT) of Hérault. Not everyone has the opportunity, at 85 or 90, to get around by bicycle. And with the epidemic, older people feel safe in a taxi. "

Faced with the demands, the Metropolis gave up (a little) of ballast: it authorized taxis to use the bus lanes, but only "to reach the main health centers, thus making it possible to reduce the travel time of patients suffering from serious pathologies ”, indicates the community.

Only the sections of rue de Puech-Villa and avenue des Apothicaires between avenue Ernest-Hemingway and rue de la Croix Verte are affected by this tolerance, allowing service to the ICM (Institut du Cancer de Montpellier). ), and avenues Sabatier-d'Espeyran, Henri-Dunant and de la Justice de Castelnau between avenue Flahault and rue de Montasinos, to get to the CHU.

"A good step forward"

"All the other axes remain closed to taxis and remain reserved for buses and bicycles, as well as for emergency vehicles", specifies the Metropolis of Montpellier, in a press release.

In return, taxis promised, on these routes, that they would not overtake cyclists, and that they would only use them in the event of “traffic congestion”.

Xavier Renard, spokesperson for the Federation of Independent Taxis (FTI) of Hérault is delighted with this progress.

"We were opposed to an end of inadmissibility, a non-negotiable" no ", confides this taxi driver, this Sunday.

And today, the Metropolis is setting up sanitary corridors.

This is a good step forward, because they have understood that some people today have no other solution than to travel by taxi.

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And, rejoices Xavier Renard, the Metropolis has "understood that taxis are a major player" in transport in the metropolitan area.

In this sense, professionals will be invited "to all meetings on mobility" in the same way as the Tam or the cycling associations.

"We are going to participate in the development of the city of tomorrow", confides the representative of the FTI of Hérault.

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