How to cycle on rue Hoche in Vannes?

How to cycle on rue Hoche in Vannes? The question seems silly, but the answer is not that simple. It even generated a debate between Internet users on social networks, sparking more than a hundred comments, after questioning from a cyclist, on the Facebook page “Vannes et son agglo”. Pauline rides a bike in her daily life, particularly with her 8-year-old son, she says, to whom she wants to give clear instructions so “that he doesn't do anything”.

This Wednesday in November, she drives rue Hoche, a one-way street, which connects rue Thiers to Place de la Libération.

The cycle path which goes towards Avenue de la Marne begins in a small car park near the traffic lights at the crossroads. From there, cyclists can bypass the Libération car park, go along Avenue de la Marne, or cross and join the Boulevard de la Paix track.

But how to ride rue Hoche? If you are Cycling on the right, you are forced to go to the left just before the lights to join the cycle path, thus cutting off traffic, which Pauline considers dangerous.

Left, right?

“So I couldn't find anything better than going along the sidewalk on the left so as not to cut off the route of the bus which stops in front of the Jules-Simon college,” says the cyclist on Facebook. Pauline therefore kept left, until reaching the small parking lot at the top of the street and the start of the track. But in doing so, she was reprimanded by a driver. What to do then, she wonders?

“The problem is the blind spots,” replies Coco Honda, who recommends that he stay to the right, then at the lights, get off his bike and cross at the pedestrian crossing.

On the contrary, Cathie Gd thinks that “the cyclist must be in the left lane, since he turns left before the light to recover the cycle path”.

“We need a plan!” »

Clos Chene prefers to stay on the car lane, without using the start of the cycle path. “At this point, I also wondered how to do it and I tried to go through the small parking lot but I did not find it easy.”

What does the highway code say? It states that “to turn left when traveling on a one-way road, a driver must move to the left of the roadway”.

Sébastien laughs at the situation: “Riding in Vannes is like taking the metro in Paris, you need a plan! » As for

Corinne closes the debate and opens another: “What shocks me the most are those who go down rue Hoche and there are a lot of them! »