2023-07-27 18:34:20
Energize the center
Announced objective: to facilitate user shopping and support merchants. “We want to revitalize the town center and therefore local commerce as much as possible”, explains François Frey, works assistant, who supervised the implementation of this system which cost 2,300 euros. “The goal is to provide an additional service to the population to move around the town center by facilitating purchases. On this market morning, the carts intrigue users and shopkeepers who sometimes welcome or criticize the initiative.
“I am thinking of one of my little clients whom I love very much, who is over 90, it might be very good for her”
“For me, it’s a very good thing, I think it’s really good,” says Laurence Rousseau, the market florist, when asked for her opinion on the five carts that adjoin her location. “I think of one of my little clients whom I love very much, who is over 90 years old, it can be very good for her. It can really help the elderly who struggle every time with their big bag. »
A statement confirmed by Pascale, 63, who came with her 92-year-old mother to buy the fresh fish of the week: “The idea is good, because it can be really useful for my mother who likes to hold on to the carts in supermarkets and for whom it is a certain comfort to move around. “But to counterbalance:” However, we had not actually seen them for once. There is a lack of information. »
Unsuitable sidewalks
If a lack of explanations is pointed out by some, for others, a problem with the trolleys would be rather linked to the topography of the places: “I don’t think I’ll use them, because for the elderly, it’s not not necessarily practical to manage a trolley with the sidewalks that you have to go down, then go up, then change sidewalks… It is practical when the area is flat, which is not really the case here, on the square…” , breathes Aline, in her sixties, in the middle of buying fruit and vegetables.
A criticism that the town hall recognizes in half-words: “Indeed, all the development of the town has not been carried out to facilitate access. On the other hand, I remind you that rue Montesquieu is a shared space, so you can ride on the public road, and like a pedestrian or a cyclist, the cart can use the road. “And to add, in a form of call for delay: “It is a device that cannot be seen elsewhere, which is totally innovative, so we have no benchmarks. And then, right now, it’s the holidays, so we’ll look at the use that is made of it when we return to school. »
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