• The City and the metropolis of Lyon presented their new project for the redevelopment of the Presqu'île, so that it becomes greener, more pedestrian, by 2030.

  • The scenarios imagined include diverting certain bus lines to make the sharing of lanes between pedestrians, bicycles and (rare) motorists more fluid.

  • A consultation will take place from June 20 with the inhabitants, employees and traders of the hyper-center of Lyon, to determine the first transformations.

“Appeasement”: Grégory Doucet's leitmotif, whatever the theme of his mandate, now applies to the Presqu'île.

The mayor of Lyon and Bruno Bernard, president of the metropolis, presented their joint project, "A Presqu'île à vivre", on Wednesday, designed to streamline traffic routes and improve the quality of life of its 50,000 inhabitants.

"This is the major emblematic project of this mandate", announced Grégory Doucet, "to ensure the well-being of the inhabitants, but also of the users, the employees, the traders of the Presqu'île".

True to his principles, the mayor EELV associates this well-being with "greater "walkability" and "cyclability", but also "with a greater presence of plants", in an area which is largely devoid of them.

A classified area where pedestrians are in the majority

This requalification project, in a sector that extends from the top of the slopes of Croix-Rousse to Place Carnot, is logically in line with "the objective of climate neutrality that we have set ourselves by 2030, by making so as to limit our greenhouse gas emissions,” he adds.

With the aim of “facilitating access to heritage” – the peninsula is listed by Unesco – and to boost trade.

If the Presqu'île is already mainly pedestrian ("Half of the 545,000 daily journeys in the Presqu'île are made on foot", specifies Bruno Bernard), traffic is not easy in sectors like rue Grenette, where pedestrians, cars, bicycles and buses compete for bitumen.

Béatrice Vessilier, in charge of town planning and the living environment, therefore presented several scenarios to make these axes more fluid: "The Presqu'île is already very well served by public transport, but these surface lines must be reorganized, since there are around 1,400 buses that use the Terreaux-Cordeliers sector every day, she said.

Place des Terreaux, we would remove the strong bus lines in favor of traffic on the quays of the Saône and the rue de Grenette”.

Beginning of the consultation on June 20

Different bus routes would be moved to the platforms, or even removed to the north and south of Place Bellecour, “to free up some space”.

Even if the car represents only 15% of trips, the project provides "more meeting areas with cars limited to 20 km / h with priority for cyclists and pedestrians, and extremely reduced automobile flows", according to Valentin Lungenstrass, deputy mobility and urban logistics.

The new peninsula imagined by the EELV municipality and by the metropolis would thus concentrate their common objectives.

On condition of convincing the inhabitants and users of the heart of Lyon.

"The consultation starts on June 20, a public meeting will take place at the beginning of July", specifies Béatrice Vessilier, to determine "a first phase which will be deployed between 2023 and 2023".

The project manager will be appointed in 2023, for an effective transformation in 2030.

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