A date given for “systematic” sanctions

The new limited traffic area (ZTL) of the peninsula is to come into force on June 21, 2025. With it, new rules of access for motorists who wish to enter the city center of Lyon.

Rules that do not please its detractors. Access to this sector, which extends from Place Bellecour to the bottom of the slopes of the Croix-Rousse will be the subject of controls … and verbalizations.

first an “educational” phase until the start of the 2025 school year

Valentin Lungenstrass, Ecologist deputy mayor of Lyon, announced this Thursday, April 17, 2025 that there will be first a phase of pedagogy and then more systematic sanctions. On the set of the political program of BFM Lyon in partnership with news Lyonhe confirmed: “Control means sanction”.

“Municipal police officers and surveillance agents of the public road (ASVP) will control the regulation of parking and regulation of the limited traffic area,” confirms the assistant. “They will also protect the corridor bus on rue Grenette” which will be closed to cars and which will not benefit from retractable terminals.

“Of course controls equal sanctions”

Asked about the continuation of these controls, he affirms “of course, controls = sanctions”.

“We will have a first phase where the municipal police will first do pedagogy during the first months until the start of the school year,” continues the elected official. “The municipal police will make pedagogy until the start of the school year. From the start of the school year (of September) we will actually be in a mode of sanctions. Everyone will have had two, three months … knowing that the ASVPs will not have any particular tolerance if you park on a sidewalk, you take a PV, you put the pedestrians in danger, “underlines Valentin Lungenstrass.

“The peninsula is enormously frequented”

The deputy mayor assures that “the peninsula is enormously frequented” despite the announcement of this future ZTL and the work in progress. “Shops that are outside or to the fringes of Lyon have the same turnover drops without there being work or difficulties of access”.

“Accessibility will still improve to come in peninsula. Its attractiveness will be reflected positively ”.

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