Question 17641 — roads

Summary

Ms. Sylvie Ferrer draws the attention of the Minister of Transport to the lack of intercommunal coordination to create bicycle routes in rural areas. In many cases, in rural areas, it is the municipalities and departments which have responsibility for roads. Where the communities of municipalities have not taken responsibility for roads for cycle routes of community interest, the creation of the routes intercommunal bicycles encounter a double difficulty. On the one hand, in this relatively common configuration, each municipality is responsible for carrying out its section. However, the coincidence of the geographical division means that certain municipalities are responsible for major works, while some of these municipalities are sparsely populated and have few resources. The financial effort is poorly distributed, while this equipment will potentially be used by all residents of the living area. On the other hand and even more problematic, if a municipality wants to create a path to reach the next municipality, it can only build its section up to the municipal border, with no guarantee that the neighboring municipality will build the other half. In the uncertainty, many projects remain blocked. There is therefore a need for intermunicipal cooperation and communities of municipalities and communities of agglomeration are the right level for this. It would therefore be appropriate for the communities of municipalities to have the obligation to take responsibility for cycle routes of community interest in order to coordinate the works and the routes. For their part, the departments have unique road expertise in rural areas. One solution could be to assign them an obligation to provide project management assistance for the municipalities and communities of rural municipalities, especially if they are sparsely populated (less than 30,000 inhabitants). The current situation disadvantages rural areas, because in fact the legal obligation of road competence exists for metropolises, which allows them to move forward in a coordinated manner to create cycle routes. In the current situation, rurality is losing a lot of time. Bicycle mobility is all the more slowed down as roads outside urban areas are generally traveled at 80 or 90 km/h, therefore particularly dangerous for vulnerable users. This lack of safe cycling routes increases dependence on private cars for everyday travel. However, a significant proportion of trips, in rural areas as elsewhere, are short distances (less than 5 km). They can be done by bike as soon as the routes will be secure. She asks him what regulatory changes he intends to initiate in order to allow better inter-municipal coordination of the creation of cycle routes in rural areas, by entrusting to the communities of municipalities the competence relating to cycle routes of community interest and by strengthening the support of the departments to rural communities through a control assistance mission. of work.

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