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the Cergy-Pontoise travel guide
To further enhance placemaking and a sense of identity, St. Christophe also took on a new (or an old) approach towards livelyness on street level. Where the neighborhood of PrÊfecture was designed to separate pedestrians and car traffic, St. Christophe was built to do exactly the opposite. Referring back to a characteristic of traditional cityscapes, in this 1980s neighborhood, planners returned to mixed car and pedestrian traffic, which resulted in the re-appearance of parking strips, pedestrian crossings and traffic lights in the streetscape. La dalle, on which pedestrians made their way on bridges hovering over car traffic, was replaced with wide, monumental boulevards, matching the monumentality of most of the neighborhood’s architecture and the Axe Majeur.
Grand Centre - Schematic Diagram of separation of car-pedestrian routes
Saint Christophe - Schematic Diagram back to mixed traffic