Special Measures to Improve Traffic Flow

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On 3 May, the Minister of State, Serge Telle, and the Minister of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development, Marie-Pierre Gramaglia, visited the Integrated Mobility Management Centre (CIGM), which provides 24-hour a day road monitoring in the Principality. 

"With a flow of more than 110,000 vehicles per day, traffic in the Principality is a delicate balance.  As soon as an event occurs on access routes in Monaco, it quickly has an impact on traffic flow," the Minister of State recalled. 

On Thursday 25 April, the collapse of the retaining wall of the Moyenne Corniche (middle Corniche road) led to the closure of this crucial traffic route between Nice and Menton.  Vehicles that were not crossing the Principality were then obliged to do so, generating a 10% increase in traffic.  On the same day, other incidents caused traffic jams (a vehicle on fire in the A500 tunnel, a blocked lorry on the Marquet link road, etc.). 

To improve traffic flow, "the Government is introducing special measures until 10 May, the date of the implementation of alternating traffic flow on the Moyenne Corniche, which will continue for several months," announced Marie-Pierre Gramaglia.  The aim of these special measures is to:

• Bring forward the completion of renovation work on the services network in the Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, increasing the time schedule for non-noise-producing operations, in order to complete the work by 10 May and reintroduce two-way traffic
• Postpone the second phase of this work until a later date
• Postpone lighting work in the Avenue Hector Otto, which had become the last entry point into the Principality before the collapse of the wall
• Authorise vehicular traffic in four bus lanes in the Principality until 10 May:  in the Rue Grimaldi, the Boulevard Albert 1er, the Avenue d'Ostende and the Boulevard Charles III, between the Place d'Armes and the Place du Canton.

In addition, the Government has decided to systematically intensify the means of communication in real time of incidents that have an impact on traffic (via information on social networks and an alert system) and strengthen police checks on uncivil behaviour on the road (such as using unauthorised lanes, stopping suddenly in the road, double parking, etc.).

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