• The metropolis of Montpellier is testing, on the avenue de Nîmes, footrests for cyclists: these devices prevent them from setting foot on the ground.

  • “It's something you don't see in France, but you see a lot of it abroad,” explains Nicolas Le Moigne, president of the Vélocité association.

  • If the experiment is a success, these arrangements will be generalized.

If you are a regular on the avenue de Nîmes, in Montpellier (Hérault), perhaps you noticed that there was something new, on either side of the pedestrian crossing, in towards Avenue Saint-Lazare.

A railing, equipped with a kind of small step.

“At first, I thought it was a bench!

laughs a scooter rider, leaning on the metal bar, waiting to cross the road.

It is, in fact, a footstool.

This allows cyclists, when the light is red, to stabilize their bicycle, and to avoid galleys when restarting, once the way is clear.

A development that is still not widespread, but that the metropolis of Montpellier has decided to test, on this path where there are many bicycles.

And the few cyclists who stop when the little guy is red were rather intrigued, this Friday, by this new device.

"It's a good idea, it's practical!"

“, rejoices a cyclist.



"It's something you don't see in France"

For Nicolas Le Moigne, the president of the Vélocité association, which defends the practice of cycling in the city.

“It's something that we don't see in France, but that we see a lot abroad.

It is, for the cyclist, a question of comfort”, notes the activist of the Little Queen.

But not only.

“On dangerous intersections, where some cyclists, sometimes, who do not respect the lights, and who pass through red, this arrangement is also to indicate to him that he must stop.

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The metropolis hopes to collect feedback from users, who have tested these two prototypes.

“Depending on the results of this experiment, indicates the community to

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, the most relevant device can be deployed on the entire cycle network.

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