Europe1 .fr with AFP 1:51 p.m., November 28, 2022

"Because today the sidewalk is what's left when you've made room for the car, for parking, for cyclists, when you've made room for everything," said Geneviève Laferrère, representative of the French Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB) at the CNSR, who defends this recommendation.

“We have been asking for a definition of the sidewalk for a long time,” Geneviève Laferrère, representative of the French Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB) at the CNSR, who defends this recommendation, told AFP.

"Because today the sidewalk is what remains when we have taken space for the car, for parking, for cyclists, when we have taken space for everything", a- she added, believing that "very little is left for pedestrians" and that the sidewalks "are no longer a friendly place".

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15,000 self-service scooters

According to her, "scooters have aggravated the problem (...) in particular those in self-service parked on the sidewalk when they are waiting for a new user".

This recommendation comes as the city of Paris, where 15,000 self-service scooters are available, questions their "cost/benefit ratio" and their "environmental cost", in the words last week of David Belliard, the assistant for mobility and roads.

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An application to protect pedestrians and bicycles

The 15,000 Parisian scooters will thus be equipped with a license plate on the rear mudguard, as in Grenoble or in Germany, in order to help the police to better verbalize the offenses.

The CSNR has been chaired since 2017 by Yves Goasdoué, Mayor of Flers (Orne).

The interministerial delegate for road safety, Florence Guillaume, will be present on Monday at the plenary session of the Council and must comment on the recommendations adopted.