Without a car, it’s difficult to get around in Creuse. Whether to go to work, go shopping, or attend sporting events, the Departmental Council wants to know the movements of Creusois residents through a questionnaire. The goal is to identify the routes with the most traffic in order to strengthen carpooling in the department. The questionnaire must be completed until July 5.
Jeanne waits at the bus stop in front of Guéret town hall. She has a license but doesn’t have a car yet. : “I have to go to Saint-Hilaire-la-Plaine, but there is no bus. There are some that go as far as Ahun, but when you want to go to small towns like that, it’s complicated . I’m waiting to see who will poach me first or to see if a bus can bring me closer.” This Limougeaude works and lives with her parents in Creuse in the summer and usually travels by electric bike. She recognizes that getting around the department without a car is complicated. Carpooling is a solution but in his case “They won’t give me a BlaBlaCar Guéret-Saint Hilaire, it’s too close.”
“Today, we are on company carpooling”
Carpooling in Creuse is still too isolated according to Valéry Martin, vice-president for territorial policies at the Departmental Council: “We have companies like Atulam which have put things in place in the east of Creuse, there are a lot of people who carpool, for example people who work at the Departmental Council, at the hospital. They could sharing empty seats with other people Today, it’s extremely local, we’re on company carpooling where it’s very regular, in the morning, at a certain time, etc.”
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The Departmental Council has therefore launched a questionnaire, the answers will help to develop this practice in the region. “With the use of an application, the idea is that when I am at a rallying point, every five minutes, I know that someone will pass and that they can potentially pick me up. requires having a very refined diagnosis of the number of vehicles which pass on our departmental roads every day.” The Department therefore wishes to identify three carpooling lines which will reach Guéret.
- The questionnaire is available until July 5 on this link.
