Metropolis Plan to End [Problem/Issue]

“Monster bazaar”. Many motorists who came to Peninsula to go shopping or walk in Lyon on Saturday have been stuck for hours in traffic jams to get out of the Bellecour car park in recent weeks. At issue: the new traffic plan for the sector put in place by the Métropole de Lyon.
The community intends to limit these new traffic jams starting this weekend with a solution revealed at news Lyon.

The Métropole de Lyon promises to adapt the fire plan

Highly criticized at the beginning of October by Pierre Oliver, LR mayor of the 2nd arrondissement, in a video that went viral on social networks, the Metropolis chaired by the ecologist Bruno Bernard ended up speaking out a month later on this growing problem.

The environmental community says it is “attentive to saturation situations during the Saturday peak” since the implementation of this new exit via the North of Bellecour.

The Métropole de Lyon ensures “to put in place adjustment measures to improve traffic in this sector” and announces to us exclusively the adaptation of the traffic light plan on the entire North Bellecour axis.

Will the exit from the parking lot be smoother from Saturday?

In the event of heavy congestion, the manager of the Bellecour car park (Indigo) will have the possibility of contacting PC Criter, responsible for daily traffic, to activate the special phasing of the lights, from this Saturday, November 8. “This new traffic light plan should give more fluidity when leaving the car park,” says the community.

“Overall in the Bellecour sector, the new developments require fine adaptation of traffic light intersections,” adds the Metropolis. Other corrective measures may be considered if the new phasing of fires does not give complete satisfaction…

Bellecour is “too central to be fluid”

Concerning the traffic jams in Bellecour, Pierre Soulard, member for 15 years of the Infrastructure and Mobility Operations department of Métropole de Lyon, affirmed: “We have not never crossed Bellecour without stoppingexcept at night. »

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The first sector of Lyon equipped with traffic lights, Bellecour is “too central to be fluid”. Each phase of fire reserves a time only for passers-by to cross: “It is the most used pedestrian crossing in the entire metropolis”, underlines the specialist.

How to effectively streamline the space? “The proposals brought forward are optimization at the level of traffic lights until it is physically impossible to get more people through, or public transport and bicycle solutions to offer alternatives,” replied Pierre Soulard.

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