The report, written by Emmanuel Barbe, was commanded by the government after the death of Paul Varry on October 15 in Paris.
The death of this cyclist, crushed by a motorist suspected of having deliberately rolled on him, had aroused strong emotion.
The phenomenon of road violence is old, but “it is undoubtedly exacerbated by the emergence for twenty years of a + velorution + mobility”, notes the report.
According to him, cyclists and users of other so-called soft mobility modes (scooters, single-wheelers …), “are after the motorized two-wheelers, the most affected by accidents”.
Emmanuel Barbe makes several recommendations in his work, starting with the generalization of certain cycle adjustments such as “the adoption of a unique color for cycle paths, the colorization of bicycle airlocks, and an explicit marking of cycle doubles”.
It proposes to provide each agglomeration with an area 30, the number of accidents drastically decreasing in the streets where the speed is limited to 30 km/h.
The Barbe report also calls to generalize the “increased video”, assisted by artificial intelligence, to systematically verbalize “damage to gentle mobility”.
An evolution of the legislative framework would be necessary to authorize it. In return, it is proposed to adopt “a system of reduced sanctions” for the offenses committed by cyclists, to repress them more.
Other recommendations relate to the examination of the highway code that the report suggests renamed “public road code” to give greater room to cohabitation between different modes.
Some prerequisites should also be integrated into the driving license exam, such as demonstrating the door to the Dutch “Dutch” door, that is to say with the opposite hand to see what happens from the back of the vehicle.
The bicycle and walking network, which brings together 450 communities in promoting these modes of movement, praised a “very clear report”.
He insisted on the need “to restore the budgets of the bicycle plan and walk (…). It is the key to eating public space and reducing the fear of the accident which is the first obstacle to the practice of cycling”.
The Ministry of Transport assured that it would look “carefully the proposed measures” and study “the modalities of their implementation”.