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eric britton eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Tue Jan 6 18:21:47 JST 2009


I am often asked about the state of plans for extending Vélib to the
neighboring cities, and if you go to the latest Vélib newsletter at
http://velib.centraldoc.com/newsletter/ you will have a reasonably clear
statement on how this is going to work. Again, to get a rough translation,
as per the following  extracts, you cut and paste the original text into
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en#. No problem, eh?  Eric
Britton

 

 

A decision of the state 

Friday July 11 2008, a few days before the anniversary of Vélib ', the State
Council validated the legality of the amendment and defended by the City of
Paris. 

The council of Paris voted the principle of extending Vélib 'to neighboring
December 19 2007. Vélib stations' will be located in a strip of 1, 5 km from
Paris, in the main lines linking common to the capital. The stations would
be equipped with about 25 attachment points and supplemented stations called
"relaxed". Following the establishment of this convention, working meetings
were held between the municipalities, communities agglomeration and the City
of Paris to study possible locations of the stations.

 

Three questions to Patrick Lefebvre, General Engineer of Technical Services
and Chief displacements City Hall of Paris. 

How to spend the consultations with the Commons? 
Collaborations between communities and the City of Paris are rich and
successful. It is a work between the elected officials but also with
technical society SOMUPI. The City of Paris is fortunate, because of its
size, have technical specialists in very specific areas. The smaller
communities have not always so fortunate. The Technical Services certain
municipalities are sometimes forced to use outside firms to obtain specific
plans concerning the nature of sub-soil, electrical connections possible and
to make technical instructions necessary for the establishment of new
stations. Our goal remains the establishment of all stations for the second
quarter of 2009. 

How do you pending Vélib 'in the surrounding communities? 
There is a real enthusiasm among our partners. It is for them to offer a new
means of transport to their people, thus promoting intermodality. We must
not forget that 15% of annual subscribers are residents of neighboring
Paris! The satisfaction survey conducted in March, which also questioned the
occasional subscribers (tickets 1 day, 7 days), showed that nearly 33% of
users come from the suburbs! So there is a real expectation that we, City of
Paris and our partners are trying to answer. 

What are the selection criteria for the location of stations? 
A major study was conducted by a specialized body to determine the future
location of such stations. The study takes into account many indicators such
as employment areas, the density of the population through habitat areas,
commercial activities. In a second phase of consultations were undertaken
with our partners to endorse these settlements. The study was adjusted in
both the total number of stations (300 maximum) and "Band 1 500 m since the
territorial limits of Paris. The maximum number of attachment points on a
common equals the number of stations increased by 25. For example, all
stations located near the Bois de Vincennes and Boulogne, for reasons of
fluidity, will double to fastening 50 points in total!

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