Town hall starts the Maine banks reconquest on the ground

Next sunday the banks of the Maine will be free of cars from 6 am to 6 pm. The town hall want to dedicate the place to sport all day long. The initiative has been called "All Angers is moving". "We want to get the people out of their homes so that they may discover the banks again", says Michel Houdbine, deputy mayor entrusted with sports.

The people will find displays of fitness, roller, triathlon and archery as well as american football. Sportsmen will be able to compete for a urban trail of 8 km long using all the reliefs of the city like the Saint-Maurice uphill. About 2 000 to 3 000 runners are waited.

But what the city could wat above all is the support of the people to a major urbanistic project which consists in the restitution on the long range of the place to pedestrians. And Mr Houdbine doesn't hide it : "All Angers is moving" is in fact "the first step of the Maine banks reconquest".