It is the mid of mobility week. I came back from a visit in Bordeaux and of course I cannot stop looking at the city and the Smart parts of it like new modes of transport, humanity, etc.
Here is a selection of pictures and a small explanation related to the mobility aspects
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| Skate zen near the cathedral - hour limitations |
It seems that skate boarding in the city center is now regulated. Skating is now only allowed 18 hours per week, on Wednesday and Saturday from 11- 20H in this zone at least in front of the cathedral
The name is Skate ZEN. Zen for the visitors? And interestingly for a French town, it is also written in English.
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| Bluecub at charging station (cité du vin) |
Bluecub is an initiative of the Bolloré group, and has a fleet of 200 electric cars that can be used in Bordeaux and Arcachon area. The cars, once parked at the station are charged.
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Bluecub - rental of electric cars
Next is the CITIZ cooperative in Bordeaux providing over 100 station based shared cars.
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| CITIZ - car sharing |
And parking?
 It is interesting to see that certain streets in the city center have not been transformed to pedestrian only areas, but allow cars with a pass to drive in or make deliveries. This allows for a livable street with less impact. The on-street parking facility allows for card/cash payments and even an app that is ironically called Easypark - high expectations ! The customer interface is still a nightmare and will create annoyed citizens like everywhere
What about the electric steps/bikes/scooters?
The city of Bordeaux has signed a charter with the e-scooter providers this to allow an ordered manner of distribution in the city. This charter asks the providers to pay a certain service fee, a creation of dedicated parking areas, and a limit to the number of e-scooters per company
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| TIER scooters waiting in their parking area in front of the French start-up Cdiscount |
There are several providers, some more exotic than others: Pony, Flash, Volt, CIRC, TIER, Indigo I saw
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The logo - a bike and a communication symbol
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- Indigo - the car parking company has also electric scooters next to the bikes
Poney - a French start-up with a fleet of bikes and of electric steps
Poney bikes (the one in the back)
- TIER: electric steps
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| CIRC |
Barcelona based YEGO provides these nice electric scooter in the Bordeaux area
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| YEGO scooter |
  Let's talk about the Bordeaux metroplitan V3 providing station based bikes and e-bikes in the Bordeaux area. This is a contract managed by Keolis. I used a 24 hours ticket so i could get around Bordeaux. At my first stop I changed bike, and could not get the bike out of the holder. The customer assistance could only tell me that my 24h ticket was blocked (the system indicated I was renting a bike, and I was not) and therefore I had to call my friends to come and pick me up at the other side of Bordeaux - a failed experience from my side than.
The tram!
Of course one cannot talk about mobility without the newly build trams. These are a real sucess.
In the city center there are not electric wires on top (despite the road sign:)) . A new line is in construction and creates a lot of changes in the car circulation plan as I discovered.
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| And the tram! |
Smart citizen - other elements
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| Smart Building - in wood ) in area near Cité du Vin |
Complete new building areas near the Cité du vin - hyperion - build in wood and be quite tall (50 meters high)
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| Collecting the cigarettes and recycling them |
I like the term
eco-megot - it is a French start-up that wants to make people aware of the cigarette butt waste; the aim is to start recycling them at some point.
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| Glass crossing between two parts of secundary school |
It seems that even in the city-center one can add contemporary architecture. Here the glass crossing in a French lycée.
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| temporary usage of a abandoned building in city center |
Ambassade was a temporary use of a building in the city center organised by the collective
Yes we camp
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| Choosing a book in the citizen run book deposits (Bordeaux) |
Free book stores in the parc, where citizens can take a book for free and put it back afterwards
To end Bordeaux, a city on the move - this picture overview along the Gironde river, a citizen with its own electric bike and a children stroller attached.
It is interesting to see that certain streets in the city center have not been transformed to pedestrian only areas, but allow cars with a pass to drive in or make deliveries. This allows for a livable street with less impact.
The on-street parking facility allows for card/cash payments and even an app that is ironically called Easypark - high expectations ! The customer interface is still a nightmare and will create annoyed citizens like everywhere
Let's talk about the Bordeaux metroplitan V3 providing station based bikes and e-bikes in the Bordeaux area. This is a contract managed by Keolis. I used a 24 hours ticket so i could get around Bordeaux. At my first stop I changed bike, and could not get the bike out of the holder. The customer assistance could only tell me that my 24h ticket was blocked (the system indicated I was renting a bike, and I was not) and therefore I had to call my friends to come and pick me up at the other side of Bordeaux - a failed experience from my side than.
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