The coverage route in Paris is a fiasco, drivers borrow it alone and don’t care about radars

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were an opportunity to bet on redesigned mobility. The carpooling route has therefore been designed so that the trips of Ile -de -France residents are not done in the middle of a cloud of pollution. The prefecture explains that this system made it possible to reduce traffic by 11 %, less pollution but also less accidents. Except that these official figures mask an unlveking reality.

Total fiasco for the carpooling route in betting

The majority of motorists simply ignore this carpooling route and rolls alone at the wheel. However, Paris has deployed infrared radars to locate a real passenger and not a model or an object placed on the passenger seat. Except that this advanced technology does not intimidate offenders despite 366 tickets that fall every day and more than 25,000 verbalizations shipped since May.

The Parisian The extent of the phenomenon reveals to us since more than 50 % of the vehicles circulating on the carpooling route transport a single person. It is even one vehicle in two at the Porte de Vincennes, at the Porte d’Aubervilliers or at the Porte d’Asnières. Motorized two-wheelers also massively take this left route despite a total ban.

The crowds do not help things. When the traffic jams are formed, almost 60 % of the users of the carpooling route roll alone. They try to escape from the cap by all the possible means including this one.

Motorists revolt against the town hall

The association 40 million motorists denounce this policy. Pierre Chasseray, his general delegate, believes that this is a system of “Large -scale punishment” Who “Sanction ordinary citizens for an offense that does not endanger anyone.”

Philippe Nozière, president of the association, criticizes the promises not held: “We were promised that this measure would change behavior and streamline traffic. Four months later, motorists continue to take this path because they have no alternative.”

Now a petition is online called “Motorists in Paris, capital punishment” And requests the abandonment of the carpooling route. Exasperation is therefore growing among motorists who believe that it is an ineffective and unfair device.

However, the Parisian town hall is resisting. David Belliard, assistant in charge of travel, persists: “The figures we have collected show that all the lights are green to perpetuate this carpooling route”. However, the reality on the ground is different according to The Parisian.