The other break point is the launch of a survey on the mobility of the lower city. In his communication, the chief of the communal college and his alderman Alicia Monard claim to want to be taboo of a possible return (and unthinkable a few months ago) of the car on the whole boulevard Tirou, on the sambre quays or in the old district of the triangle. Not only is it a disavowal of what the ex -Bourgmestre wanted for his city -to create secure and soothing pedestrian spaces, but it is also a denial of the developments brought to the city.
We see what has become of the rue de la Montagne renovated at great cost as part of the Phoenix plan, co -financed by Europe: it turns into open -air parking lots some evenings and Saturdays in defiance of the prohibitions to park, the slabs and briquettes of coatings are delighted under the weight and frequency of traffic. The only positive point is that the passage of vehicles strengthens social control there and can help reduce the feeling of pedestrians in the night.
Listening to criticism of the population is certainly a very good thing. But does it all be a solution to the disaffection of urban centers? Is this the price of attractiveness? And subsidiary question, are we ready to scuttle barely made investments? If we want public spaces smashed-the minimum degraded-by the cart, a city with the appearance of a large parking lot crossed by cars as in the eighties or is not, then let’s also think of restoring traffic on the esplanade of the central station for the largest chaos of its users.
Charleroi launches a survey on mobility: express yourself by May 30 on the future of pedestrian zones and quays
