A response to critics pointing to a lack of secure cycle paths linking the municipalities to each other. The elected officials of Nantes Métropole approved on Thursday the creation of a 7.5 kilometer bicycle route which will link Nantes to Couëron by 2025. The two-way track, which will benefit from a platform separated from the roadway, will also serve Saint- Herblain and Indre.
Part of the route already exists at the level of the rue des factories (Nantes) and the quai Cormerais (Saint-Herblain). Between Haute-Indre and Couëron, the track will not run along the Loire but will take the “route des sables” (VM107). Total cost of the project: 8.6 million euros. Pedestrian facilities will be made on this occasion.
Another axis between Nantes and La Chapelle-sur-Erdre
In addition to this Nantes-Couëron axis, the creation of another cycle route leading from La Chapelle-sur-Erdre to Nantes-north, along VM n°69, has been validated. The estimated envelope is around 2 million euros. Full commissioning is scheduled for 2025.
Several other long cycle paths should be announced next June. All are part of a large “metropolitan bicycle network” which provides, by 2026, 50 kilometers of major “legible and secure” axes to encourage bicycle travel.