Car, tram or bicycle, the transport match is tight, to go to the beach, from Montpellier.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Some prefer the car, which allows you to be more free, even if parking is sometimes a bit of a hassle.
Others opt for the serenity of public transport, even if you can't go everywhere.
And finally, there are the bike lovers.
Readers of "20 Minutes" tell everything about their favorite means of transport.
To go for a splash in the Mediterranean, from Montpellier (Hérault), the transport match is tight.
By car, you are free, but it pollutes, and finding a place is often a real hassle.
By public transport, it's quieter, but it's long and you don't go where you want.
By bike, it's a great ride, but you have to exercise your calves, under a blazing sun.
Readers of
20 Minutes
talk about their favorite means of transport to reach the coast.
By car
Going to the beach by car is always a must, if we are to believe the crowded car parks every summer by the sea. tram when it stops at Pérols?
That she can come by bike, with the temperatures we have had for a few years?
“, growls Marina, for whom “the car still has a bright future ahead of it”.
Kathryn isn't ready to let go of her Titine either.
“I live in Lemasson, so I take the car, it's 15 minutes.
Against an hour and a half by public transport, with two trams, and a bus, each every 30 minutes on Sundays.
Not practical at all!
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Kathryn often parks in the center of Carnon, where "there are often spaces", or at the Lido.
“I would have taken public transport if there was a fairly frequent tram or shuttles that directly connect the beaches with the city center, but this is not the case.
Benoît also goes there by car.
And he does everything to "avoid paying", by parking at the Lido, or in the parking silo, in Palavas-les-Flots.
“To get places, I go there in the morning or from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
I rarely have trouble parking.
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By public transport
The car is not unanimous among
20 Minutes
readers .
Public transport also has its fans.
For Safia, the car is "too difficult to park and the cabin is too hot on the way back", she confides.
So she takes the bus, near Arènes.
“In summer, there is one every half hour, and the return is possible until 10:40 p.m.
Perfect !
Brigitte goes swimming in Carnon, taking the tramway “to Place de France [at Odysseum], then the 606 bus. have more before July!
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Patrice, meanwhile, is a regular on the bus that leaves from the Garcia Lorca stop, to Palavas-les-Flots.
“With the ticket for 10 trips at 10 euros, it is the most economical”, calculates the Montpellier resident, who castigates, on the other hand, the frequencies, which are too far apart.
“Result, travelers refused, especially in summer and on weekends with good weather!
Arnaud takes the tram to Pérols, then the shuttle to Palavas-les-Flots.
Too bad, he regrets, this service is not offered “before the month of June.
You have to walk from the tram stop to the beach, all this despite our taxes!
Scandal.
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By bike
And then there are the bicycle lovers.
Those who get on their bike as soon as the urge to splash is felt.
Like Pierre, who, depending on where he is going, goes along the Lez to Palavas-les-Flots, takes the cycle path along the tramway to Carnon, and continues on his way, sometimes, to La Grande-Motte or Le Grau-du-Roi.
"I always go to the beach by bike from the city center," he says.
Yes, I'm one of those weird people who gave up the car.
For twelve years.
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Jean-François, who lives on Boulevard Berthelot, is also a fan of cycling.
A bit out of obligation, at the start.
“Since the closure of boulevard Clemenceau, I have been living in hell,” he confides.
I can no longer take the car to go to work in Lattes or to the beach.
So I use the bike.
He takes Boulevard Vieussens, then heads for the banks of the Lez, Lattes, then Maguelone Cathedral.
Too bad, he sighs, "there are no cycle paths everywhere".
“Obviously, I go to the beach much less often because it takes me 45 minutes for each trip,” continues Jean-François.
And when I go there, I leave at the end of the afternoon, to avoid the high temperatures and huge traffic jams to get to Carré Mer beach. The road is so narrow that cars have trouble getting through.
Which means that even on a bike,
we are blocked behind the cars!
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