Reserve the sidewalks for pedestrians, but above all write it down in the regulations. This Monday, the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) will recommend “legally defining” the sidewalks as reserved for pedestrians, given the risk of collision with bicycles or scooters, AFP learned from Road Safety.
Meeting in plenary session on Monday, the CSNR will make nine recommendations to the government, number 7 of which provides for “legally defining the sidewalk as part of the public thoroughfare reserved for traffic and pedestrian use.”
The agency also wants to “clarify that the sidewalk is physically separated from the road so that it is identifiable and detectable by all users.”
A difficult coexistence with electric scooters
This recommendation comes as the city of Paris, where 15,000 self-service scooters are available, questions its “cost/benefit ratio” and its “environmental cost”, in the words of David Belliard, a mobility and road assistant, last week. The 15,000 Parisian scooters will thus be equipped with a license plate on the rear fender, as in Grenoble or in Germany, to help the police to better verbalize infringements. Electric scooters and bicycles are not legally allowed to ride on the sidewalk today.
The CSNR has been chaired since 2017 by Yves Goasdoué, mayor of Flers (Orne). The inter-ministerial delegate for road safety, Florence Guillaume, will be present on Monday at the plenary session of the Council and will have to pronounce on the recommendations adopted. Created in 2001, suspended in 2008 and reinstated in 2012, this consultation and proposal body made up of 67 members (elected, representatives of the State, associations, doctors, companies, etc.) is considered a “parliament”. road safety.
Source: BFM TV
