Published on November 28, 2024 at 5:12 p.m. / Modified on November 28, 2024 at 9:07 p.m.
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Since the Riponne car park has been under construction, motorists have been struggling to find parking spaces in Lausanne.
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Traders are the first victims of this situation which reinforces an already complicated period for the local economy.
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Place de la Riponne will benefit from new exterior developments from summer 2025.
It’s a show that now occurs every day in downtown Lausanne. At the entrance to the Riponne car park, a line of cars stretches for around fifty meters, waiting for a space to become available. The scenario is almost identical a street further, at Valentin, where motorists try to rush into a parking lot which is full. Some are patient, others try to get out of this traffic jam in search of another place to park.
On the eve of the Christmas holidays, this situation, caused by the urgent sanitation of the Riponne car park, is at its worst. Of the 1,200 places available, only half are operational. “We should have collected 400 at Christmas, but that is ultimately not going to be the case,” laments Anne-Lise Noz, owner of the chocolate factory of the same name and president of the Lausanne traders. These events are a serious source of concern for craftsmen.
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