Georges Sarre for the movement of motorcycles in the bus lanes

Thanks to the municipal elections in Paris next year, the debate on the place of motorized two-wheelers in the city resurfaces. With in the foreground the movement of motorcycles in the bus lanes, always peremptorily refused by the mayor…

While Bertrand Delanoë has always opposed, despite the most basic common sense, the circulation of motorcycles and scooters in the bus lanes, the mayor of Paris would now consider reversing his position but only in this regard. which concerns electric two-wheelers !

Decidedly more aside from an absurdity in terms of urban transport, the candidate for his own succession in March 2008 still refuses to consider motorized two-wheelers as a real alternative to the automobile – even the only one, unlike Velib which are not as an alternative to public transport.

He nevertheless tries to occupy the field by promising the opening of the famous corridors to electric two-wheelers. This allows Georges Sarre (Republican and Citizen Movement), former Secretary of State for Transport, mayor of the eleventh arrondissement and fierce opponent of the pro-Delanoë socialist Patrick Bloch in the eleventh – to come back to the niche by reminding that we must "allow all motorized two-wheelers to circulate in the widest corridors"(read also).

"All the experiences in foreign capitals show that the circulation of motorized two-wheelers in wide corridors does not worsen the toll of accidentology.", continues Mr. Sarre with reference to the policies carried out for a long time in London, Athens, Barcelona, ​​Rome or Amsterdam (read), stressing for all practical purposes that"the latest European anti-pollution standards make new motorized two-wheelers, even with heat engines, less polluting than cars, of which they are the alternative for many Parisians".

But don’t we say that he is worse deaf than the one who does not want to hear? Answer at the polls in March 2008 !

Eric MICHEL

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