The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, as President of the CANCA (“Communauté d’Agglomération Nice-Côte d’Azur”), announced some months ago the project of the second tramway line in Nice. This line would be include a network of six km, crossing the city in the east/west way, and would start at the “Place Massena” to serve the airport, the “quartier des Moulins”, and have its terminus in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Since then, many routes have been imagined, but according to Estrosi, only one has held his attention. The route that seduced the mayor goes along the famous “Promenade des Anglais” on its entire length.
Still according to Christian Estrosi, this choice is caused by several reasons:
- fewer shops, fewer residents and no bus line.
- it could relieve the traffic congestion on, and save thousands of motorists from entering the city with their car. Indeed, they could pull over in one of the new car parks of St Augustin and take the tram to enter Nice.
- cheaper and faster roadworks.
- it could give to the “Promenade des Anglais” a status of touristic showcase, as, according to Christian Estrosi, the second tramway line in Nice would not denature the setting of this famous place.
- and overall “we don’t want big roadworks in the city centre of Nice!”.
But the mayor certainly has to deal with the project opponents, those could be very numerous: the discontent already begin to swell among the resident of Nice: they don’t criticize the commissioning of a second tramway line in Nice, but the chosen route that is, according to them, not suited at all to the aesthetic integration of the tram.
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