In the early morning in Rennes, they applaud the cyclists who go to work

It takes a few minutes before Faces are derivedbefore displaying A amused smile. This Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Place de Bretagne in Rennes, the cyclists – a little surprised – are very encourage by colorful pedestrians, with banners and slogans.

“Pedding, it’s stylish”

Four volunteers of The Association Rays of Action are in fact used to applaud with vigor those who surrender On the road to work: “Bravo to your bike”, “your bike is beautiful! “,” Good day by bike “,” Bravo “,” thank you for choosing the bicycle “,” pedaling is stylish “, can we hear or read on this very borrowed crossroads.

“It’s purely free “, Smores Armande, member of the association which promotes the interest of cycling and pedestrians in the metropolis of Rennes.

We want to put good humor on the morning journey! We thank them for choosing the bicycle.

Regular encouragement

A fun job to which volunteers have been lending for a while already. Because it is not not the first time Whether they are on the red lights or the stop to celebrate cyclists.

We were also in place of Saint-Germain, it is also in this place that we carried out a priority action for pedestrians because some people told us about their difficulty in crossing; Bikes do not easily yield their passage.

Mobility week, action “Pumping” To re -inflate the tires and perform Summary interviews On bikes … volunteers work many times in Rennes and its metropolis.

A bike barometer

Volunteers take the opportunity to slide, to those who are most receptive, a flyer which allows them to participate in “Bike barometer”.

By a series of questions For 10 minutes thanks to a QR code, cyclists can give up until June 2 their opinion on traffic, on the agreement (or altercations) with vehicles or pedestrians, dangerous points, etc.

“It is a tool that allows the city and the metropolis of to know et study THE conditions travel ”, summarizes Armande. The results will be available in September in 2025.

A place of frequent controls

If the cyclists were encouraged this Tuesday, April 15, 2025 place in Brittany, in a completely different atmosphere, in October 2024, they were checked and for some breaking the law, verbalized by the police. Fines which they then judged “disproportionate”.

A similar operation, Named “The road is shared” was held in December 2024, where the press was invited. We were reading you then The most raised offenses by the police.

As a reminder, according to the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine, preventive operations (without verbalization) by the police have been made since January 2023 at a frequency of once a month. Operations with verbalizationsstill according to the prefecture, are of the order of once a week.

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