"Toulouse Métropole" Bicycle Plan for 2011 - 2020
Budget
Annual budget (excluding « VélÔToulouse ») is up to 11 M €, or 15 € per year and per inhabitants, including:
6 M € for
the implementation / programming of the bike facilities
4 M € for
the facilities integrated to the existing urban planning projects (high volume
public transportations, public spaces) / for further integrate support for
bicycling into existing City policies.
1 M € for
the bicycle services
Human Resources
1
engineer, 3 technicians inside the « Direction Gestion Des Infrastructures
de Toulouse Métropole » (Department of management of Toulouse metropolis
infrastructures)
Projects
are studied and executed by the territorial hubs of the urban community.
Governance
The bike
policy, previously carried out within the context of the Environmental
commission (commission Environnement), is, since 2009, handled by the
Transportation and mobility commission of Toulouse Metropolis (commission
Transports et Déplacements de Toulouse Métropole). The bicycle is then
considered as a useful mean of transportation.
Creation,
in July 2009, of a forum for discussion: the « bicycle group work »
(le « Groupe de Travail Vélo ») bringing together the elected
officials of the municipalities and the department of the Urban Community.
Cycling facilities in the Urban
Community of Toulouse Metropolis
Urban cycling network
490 km
(267 in Toulouse) including (need an update):
-
230 km of bikeways,
-
71 km of cycle lanes,
-
90 km of mixed ways for
pedestrians and bicycles,
-
14 km of bus lanes open to
cyclists,
-
2 km of side alleys
100 km of
cycling facilities introduced or set up to standards between 2008 and 2012.
25 km of
lined city streets since 2008.
4 key axes defined
as priorities in the Bicycle Plan:
◦
The
axis Faubourg Bonnefoy/route d’Albi/route de Toulouse,
◦
The
axis Avenue de Muret/route de Seysses,
◦
The
axis Grande rue St Michel/URSS/Jules Julien/route de Narbonne,
◦
The
axis Berges de la Garonne entre (le plan de port ?) à Blagnac et le
Cancéropôle.
Other
priority axes evocated as major axes to deal with: berges de l’Hers, berges de
l’Aussonnelle, « circulaire » around the airport and aerospace area,
route de St Simon.
Statement
of range of principles in the Bicycle Plan: Introduce axes of bikeways that are safe, comfortable, attractive and
uninterrupted, create conditions
that make bicycling more attractive than driving (Revise existing parking policies to include bicycle parking, reduce
the width of the car lanes, remove car lanes), quality charter, research provisional
alternatives in case of congestion to get, without delay, continuous bikeways on major axes.
Green network
274 km (52
in Toulouse); 368 km of routes marked out, to favour hiking and biking (dirt or
mountain bike) in the entire metropolis of Toulouse.
30 km/h areas
370 km
including 100 km of one way lanes and two-ways cycling lanes.
On
average, 10 to 12 km of new 30 km/h areas planned each year on the territory of
the urban community
« Piétonisation » (« pedestrianization ») – Shared
Space
There is
currently, in the city centre, around 10km of pedestrian areas or Shared Space.
The city centre redevelopment project provides 2 to 3 km of streets in
pedestrian areas or additional Shared space.
The facilities quality
Technical specifications on the
cycling facilities provided in 2012 for all the technicians in charge of the
design and the improvement of the facilities. Introduction of other technical charters, “30 km/h areas”,
“Shared Space”, “pedestrian areas”.
Partnership
with the « Association Velo » (the Bicycle Association) to assess the
pinch points.
Several
improvements are advocated:
-
Wider cycling lanes
(1.50 meters) entirely painted in green at the intersections and portions seen
as the most dangerous.
-
Promotion of low borders of 0 centimetres
(for instance, the Coubertin bridge or the avenue de Rangueil),
-
(Deletion of most of the chicanes
on the entries of the lanes to improve the fluidity of bicycles’ mobility,
notably the high volume bikes) ?
Study « Services
Vélo » (« Bicycle Services »)
Strategy
of support to the cycling practice with 5 priorities:
◦ Bicycle
Parking in Matabiau (handled by the Region and the SNCF, the public train
company)
◦ Bicycle
parking and bike rental possibilities near connections and transfer locations
between cycling and other modes of transportation (“intermodality”) in order to
develop the integration of bicycling with other travel modes.
◦ Support
to the development of safe bicycle parking spots in buildings
◦ Support
to the buying of Electrically Assisted Bicycles (perhaps the most interesting
measure on the cost / mobility ratio)
◦ Communication:
need to have a communication strategy that promotes long term changes in the
transportation habits of the citizens. The first action would be the creation
of a website dedicated to bicycling.
Parking
- on
average, 300 hoops / slots installed per year
-
inventory of the needs on the scale of the urban community in 2012
- new
model of hoop / slot, more simple, in preparation, to improve our capacity to
provide and decrease the cost. Annual budget: 75 000 euros
Respect of the cycling facilities
Cooperation
between the city police and the « Association Vélo » (the bicycle
association) to identify the most crowded bike lanes and take strong and
regular actions. A bilan is necessary…
Support to the buying of electrically
Assisted Bicycles
The
support will be effective from 20th September, 2012. It will finance 25% of the
buying of an “e-bike” with a maximum of 250 euros and will apply to all the
inhabitants of the Metropolis of Toulouse.
Funding:
-
50000 € in 2012
-
100000 € in 2013
-
100000 € in 2014.
« Maison du Vélo » (The
Bicycle House):
Funded by the Urban Community: 268 000 € per year for
the following actions:
- More than 300 rental bicycles + accessories
--> City bikes
--> 3 types of folding bikes: Strida, Dahon,
Gazelle.
10 € per month (7 € for students since 2012)
100 € per year (70 € for students since 2012)
- « Vélo-école » (Bicycle – School)
--> Children: actions in schools and recreation centres with qualified speakers,
provision of 26 bicycles + educational material
3800
children already trained ( ?)
2010: 740
children of + 60 children from recreation centres
2011: 1
100 children + 220 from recreation centres
2012: 1
100 children (from January to mid-June) + 550 children for the “fête du vélo”
(Bicycle fest).
--> Adults:
Once per
week for beginners: Wednesday from 5 : 30 PM to 7 : 00 PM
1 Saturday
per month: educational tour in the city for the “experienced” ones
- Other actions
- communication,
- repair
workshops,
- « Vélocythèque »,
- registration
of bikes with a code (Bicycode)
8 € (5 €
for members)
VélÔToulouse
- public
bicycle sharing system with rental bikes available to all, 24 / 7
- 253
rental slots, 2400 bicycles
- 13500
subscribers, of whom 3500 with the
public transportation card “carte Pastel” (service available since
2011)
- between
2 and 2,5 millions rentals per year
- cost
for the city of Toulouse : 4,7 M € per year,
- project
for 2012 : subscribing with the elderly (?) card, the “carte Sénior”
Users of VélÔToulouse survey in April
2012 - motivations :
- It
is faster than the car (mobility, parking, etc.) : 39%
- It
makes my travels more enjoyable : 28%
- It’s
money saving : 16%
- It
allows me to do sports : 10%
- It
allows me to fight against pollution : 7%
92% of the
subscribers are globally satisfied with the service.
Less
satisfied when it comes to availability (61%) and to the good condition of the
bicycles (53%).
Satisfaction of the customer service:
- entirely
satisfied : 42%
- somewhat
satisfied: 46%
- rather
not satisfied: 8%
- dissatisfied
: 4%
24 / 7 service implemented in 2011:
- visibility
: 79%
- satisfaction
: 98%
Organization of the « Bus
Cyclistes » (cyclists buses)
The aim is
to develop utility trips in groups of bikes through « cyclists bus »
lanes, listed on the website. Funding from the Metropolis of Toulouse.
“Association Vélo” (the bicycle
association)
Partnership
to identify the pinch points to assess in priority. Meeting every three month
to consider all of the projects.
Communication :
- map
of the cycling lanes.
- booklet
for the two – ways cycling lanes
- booklet
« vélo-école » (School – Bicycle)
- the
operation "Cyclistes brillez" (shine cyclists) : 80 lighting packages
distributed to the non – equipped cyclists in conjunction with the city police
and the « Association Vélo » (the bicycle association)
- animations
for the « semaine de la mobilité » (the week of mobility) and the
« fête du vélo » (the bicycle fest), provided directly by the city or
by the « Maison du Vélo » (the bicycle house)
- communication
campaign in preparation of September 2012
- website
project dedicated to cyclists with calculations of routes in terms of
« cyclability » of the streets. Convention signed with the company
“Géovélo” in this extent.
- organization
of cycling tours from April to November to discover the cycling lanes on the territory
of the Metropolis of Toulouse
“Intermodality” (from one
transportation to the other)
Exchange hubs
Study and
equipment by Tisséo (Authority for the organization of the transportation
system) of safe parking spots near the major exchange hubs (not complete):
Aim of all
the exchange hubs:
-
creation of flexible bicycle spots
(progressive : from 50 to 200 spaces), which can be transformed into human
services (maintenance, information and rental) : work with the Urban
Community,
-
development of bicycle parking
slots at the critical bus stops
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