A first fund created in 2018, and which was initially to last until 2025, had a total budget of 350 million euros.
Four years after the launch of the first bicycle plan, when she was Minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, today at Matignon, has decided to change direction. Initially endowed with a budget of 350 million euros over seven years (2018-2025), the system will now benefit fromof 250 million euros in 2023“. In particular, it will take up the key points which have enabled the success of the first and in particular the assistance with the acquisition, “we will keep it“, confirmed the Prime Minister during the press point, recalling that she had allowed in 2021 to make the little queen “the best-selling means of transport“.
This second component intends to go further with the creation of a “interministerial cycling committeewhich will include all the ministers concerned, will also be launched in the fall and will meet every six months. In addition, the government hopes to bring out a national bicycle sector ranging from “from assembly to recycling to repair“, underlined Elisabeth Borne.
The other areas of the previous plan will be maintained, such as the development of cycle paths, including “14,000 km have been covered thanks to the cycling plan“, underlined the head of government . The “active mobility funds“, which allows the financing of infrastructures, will be part of “in a logic of contracting with local authorities, to ensure that investments are targeted and effective. It will be endowed with 250 million euros for 2023; 200 million will be dedicated to infrastructure and 50 million euros for parking“, according to Matignon. “The multi-annual envelope remains to be defined, because it will be part of the overall reflection on transport infrastructure, based in particular on the infrastructure orientation council which will be delivered this autumn.“, according to this source.
Increase cycle paths
At the end of 2018, the government of Édouard Philippe, of which Élisabeth Borne was then Minister of Transport, announced a “bike plan“national establishing in particular a fund of 350 million euros over seven years (2018-2025), supplemented by an additional 150 million euros by the recovery plan decided after the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the Ministry of Ecology website,the first 5 calls for projects launched between 2019 and 2022 were a great success with 933 winning projects for a total of 365 million euros in grants. 599 territories have thus been able to benefit from support for the realization of projects for the sustainability of transition cycle paths, the creation of secure cycle routes and the reduction of route discontinuities.“.
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The cycling plan, which now runs until 2027, also intends to extend the system to an entire age group.know how to ride a bikein primary school, from which 160,000 children have benefited over the past three years.