Bike-friendly Grand Paris

In constant growth since the 2010s, cycling in the Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) has accelerated with the health crisis of 2020, marking a change both in terms of users, who are more diverse (electric bikes, cargo bikes, long- and short-term rental services), and local authorities, which are implementing more ambitious cycling plans. The number of kilometers of streets equipped for cycling has increased, notably with the creation of “coronapistes” (coronavirus bike lanes), which are now permanent. In 2023, 20% of roads in the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area will have cycling facilities in at least one direction. Intermodal practices are becoming more integrated into people's habits, and the increase in the number of cyclists justifies the development of more comfortable, safer, and continuous facilities.

The Greater Paris Cycling Atlas provides an overview of the Greater Paris Metropolis and the place it gives to cyclists, through a map of existing and planned cycling facilities, simplified at the metropolitan level and detailed at the territorial level.

The Greater Paris cycle network is being developed under the impetus of local authorities, departments, the Metropolis, and the Region. Major structural cycling developments, at the regional level (Île-de-France Cycle Network) or metropolitan level (Metropolitan Cycle Plan), are being created with significant funding to support the local authorities responsible for their construction.
Major projects are also contributing to this momentum: the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will leave a legacy of Olympistes, while the Grand Paris Express, as a multimodal partnership project, is working with the SGP, IDFM and local authorities to organize bicycle access to stations.
This atlas is the result of the compilation, enrichment, and verification of a set of data, some of which is available as open data, such as existing cycling facilities from OSM, and some of which was created by Apur, such as projects and bicycle shops. This unprecedented data is now being made available by Apur for shared knowledge. The atlas shows the 4,017 km of existing bicycle facilities and the 2,158 km of facilities in the pipeline.

Particular attention is paid to the neighborhoods surrounding Grand Paris Express stations in order to prepare for the shift towards station hubs: within a 3 km radius of each station, the maps highlight the existing and future cycle network, from major routes to areas where active modes of transport converge around station forecourts. The maps also show the services available (parking, bicycle shops, self-service bicycle stations and repair stations), which are key elements of bicycle plans. There are currently 163,000 bicycle parking spaces in the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area, and more than 54,300 are planned in connection with the Grand Paris Express stations.