{"id":19969,"date":"2026-02-16T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:32:19","slug":"dans-le-grand-avignon-un-mandat-en-forme-de-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/dans-le-grand-avignon-un-mandat-en-forme-de-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Dans le Grand Avignon, un mandat en forme de \u00ab z\u00e9ro \u00bb ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Dans le projet de territoire du Grand Avignon adopt\u00e9 en 2021, \u00ab\u00a0<i>un objectif ambitieux est ainsi fix\u00e9<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>: changer r\u00e9solument les usages, en s\u2019appuyant sur un r\u00e9seau de transports en commun performant<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, peut-on lire, o\u00f9 \u00ab\u00a0<i>extensions du tramway et des lignes Chron\u2019hop, r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement de la gare multimodale d\u2019Avignon centre<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb sont cit\u00e9s. Si le parvis de la gare centre a bien \u00e9t\u00e9 livr\u00e9, pour le reste, \u00ab<i>\u00a0<\/i><i>les transports en commun c\u2019est z\u00e9ro, on a pris du retard, tant qu\u2019il n\u2019y a pas de r\u00e9seau performant, les gens prendront leurs voitures<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, d\u00e9plorait C\u00e9cile Helle, maire (PS) d\u2019Avignon en conseil municipal en novembre dernier.<\/p>\n<p>Il est vrai que la premi\u00e8re magistrate n\u2019a, en deux mandats, jamais pu avoir la main sur la collectivit\u00e9. Comp\u00e9tence phare de l\u2019agglo, avec un budget annexe d\u00e9di\u00e9 cons\u00e9quent (108\u00a0millions d\u2019euros), les transports <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarseillaise.fr\/societe\/un-an-apres-une-grande-reunion-la-mobilite-reste-un-chantier-PH17541691\" target=\"_blank\">n\u2019ont pas pass\u00e9 la surmultipli\u00e9, malgr\u00e9 une grande r\u00e9union des \u00e9lus sur le sujet en f\u00e9vrier\u00a02024<\/a>. On peut certes mettre au cr\u00e9dit du mandat la baisse des tarifs, ayant entra\u00een\u00e9 une fr\u00e9quentation record (14,2\u00a0millions de voyageurs en 2024, soit 3\u00a0millions de plus que deux ans plus t\u00f4t) du r\u00e9seau. Un r\u00e9seau dont la flotte de bus est renouvel\u00e9e, n\u00e9cessitant plus de 40\u00a0millions d\u2019euros d\u2019investissement sur le mandat. Si le parking relais des Angles peine \u00e0 sortir de terre, ceux de Saint-Chamand et d\u2019Agroparc ont \u00e9t\u00e9 livr\u00e9s, sans oublier <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarseillaise.fr\/societe\/velopop-electriques-un-succes-fulgurant-qui-oblige-le-grand-avignon-a-accelerer-l-extension-HI18672225\" target=\"_blank\">l\u2019immense succ\u00e8s des nouveaux v\u00e9los \u00e9lectriques<\/a> en libre-service.<\/p>\n<p>Mais rien de structurant. Pire, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarseillaise.fr\/politique\/tram-d-avignon-11-millions-d-euros-deprogrammes-en-2023-OA12749986\" target=\"_blank\">le projet d\u2019extension de tramway vers l\u2019\u00eele Piot<\/a> a \u00e9t\u00e9 suspendu et aucune d\u00e9cision n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 prise. Les bureaux d\u2019\u00e9tudes eux, se r\u00e9galent, avec des analyses sans fin vers l\u2019h\u00f4pital ou Agroparc, sans qu\u2019aucune d\u00e9lib\u00e9ration n\u2019ait \u00e9t\u00e9 prise pour esquisser la moindre orientation. Idem, il y a trois ans C\u00e9cile Helle plaidait<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarseillaise.fr\/societe\/grand-avignon-les-etudes-finales-pour-le-telepherique-seront-livrees-apres-les-municipales-DL18317051\" target=\"_blank\"> pour d\u00e9velopper un t\u00e9l\u00e9ph\u00e9rique, dont le r\u00e9sultat d\u2019\u00e9tudes arrivera \u00e0 l\u2019issue du mandat<\/a>. En parlant d\u2019\u00e9tudes, le Grand Avignon est engag\u00e9 sur le projet du RER m\u00e9tropolitain et pilote <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarseillaise.fr\/societe\/grand-avignon-une-enquete-inedite-sur-les-deplacements-est-en-cours-KB19095096\" target=\"_blank\">une grande \u00e9tude in\u00e9dite sur les mobilit\u00e9s, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle du bassin de vie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dans le projet de territoire du Grand Avignon adopt&eacute; en 2021, &laquo;&nbsp;un objectif ambitieux est ainsi fix&eacute;&nbsp;: changer r&eacute;solument les usages, en s&rsquo;appuyant sur un r&eacute;seau de transports en commun &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3926,3925,330],"tags":[174,666],"news-destination":[3944],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-19969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accueil-merge","category-accueil-third","category-politique","tag-avignon","tag-transports","news-destination-homepage","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19971,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions\/19971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}