To your keyboards. Cyclists have until Monday June 2 to participate in the new “Boot of cycle cities” Organized by the federation of bicycle users. This online questionnaire makes it possible to assess the traffic traffic conditions in the municipalities of their choice. On a map, everyone can locate the sectors they deem the most perilous for the practice of cycling on a daily basis. But also areas where the developments made for 5 years have improved the safety and comfort of cyclists. Quality of cycle paths, presence of arches, dynamics of improvement … The process takes less than 10 minutes.
This 4th barometer, of which The last edition dates from 2021, is of major importance for cyclist associations. “It is a tool to document the advances in a cycle policy in the field. For mayors and road services, it is the means of having a precise overview of things to improve, ”explains Isabelle Paschal, referent to the Collective Vélo Île-de-France, which brings around forty associations.
The record made public in September
For the barometer to be as representative as possible, it is necessary to have a large number of responses. In order to appear in the results, a municipality must collect 50 minimum responses (and 30 for cities of less than 5,000 inhabitants). “In Île-de-France, we are already at 51,600 respondents and 395 municipalities estimated since the launch of the campaign at the end of February. We will exceed 55,000 participants and 312 municipalities in the 2021 edition. But since there have been many new cyclists, who do not know the barometer, and which we invite to give their opinion, ”continues Isabelle Paschal.
Then, after June 2, all the answers will be compiled and analyzed. They will give rise to a final note of 6, ranging from “excellent” (a) to “very unfavorable” (G). The list of this 4th barometer will be made public in September 2025, a few months before the municipal elections of March 2026. This will be an opportunity to measure the gap between the promises made in 2020 and the results obtained.
During the 2021 barometer, in Ile-de-France, it is the city of Versailles in the Yvelines which had received the best note (3.72 out of 6), synonymous with “rather favorable” climate at the bicycle. Montreuil en Seine-Saint-Denis had recorded the best progression, with a note 3.44 out of 6 (moderately favorable).
As for Paris (3.3 out of 6), late on its bicycle plan, it had lost several places, ranking only 12th out of 38 for cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. In question: a network of over-Frequency tracks in the east but almost non-existent to the west. A year after the efforts made during the Olympic Games, the Parisian cyclists, and the others, are they happier? Response to the start of the school year in September.
