At the end of 2018, the government had announced this national system intended to develop cycle infrastructure.
Le Monde with AFP
The Bike Plan Fund will be “endowed with 250 million euros in 2023,” said Matignon, Tuesday September 20: “200 million will be [devoted] to infrastructure and 50 million euros for parking”. It is the fourth anniversary of this plan endowed in principle from 500 million until 2025. An “inter -ministerial bicycle committee”, which will integrate all the ministers concerned, will also be launched in the fall and will meet all six month.
The “active mobility fund”, which allows the financing of infrastructure, will register “in a logic of contractualization with communities, to ensure that investments are targeted and effective”, continues Matignon, specifying:
“The multi -year envelope remains to be defined, because it will be part of the global reflection on transport infrastructure, in particular on the basis of the infrastructure guidance council which will be rendered this fall.”
“Support for the realization of secure cycle routes”
At the end of 2018, the government of Edouard Philippe, of which Elisabeth Borne was then the Minister of Transport, announced a national “bicycle plan” notably establishing a fund of 350 million euros over seven years (2018- 2025), abundant of an additional 150 million euros by the recovery plan decided after the pandemic of COVVI-19.
According to the website of the Ministry of Ecology, “the first five calls for projects launched between 2019 and 2022 were a great success, with 933 winning projects for a total of 365 million euros in subsidies. 599 territories have Thus was able to benefit from support for the realization of projects to sustain cycle paths for transition, to carry out secure cycle routes and to resorption of discontinuities of routes “.
The bicycle plan, which now runs until 2027, also intends to bring the “Knowledge rolling” system to primary school to the entire age class, which 160,000 children have benefited since three years.