Practical. Vehicles, scooters and bicycles will not be able to access the city center on the day of the music festival, Sunday June 21.
In a week, the music festival will vibrate the streets of Chaumont and Brotta. Around ten assembly points are spread across the city. To ensure everyone’s safety, the city center will be reserved for pedestrians.
From the Haut-Marne Heritage Institute, to Square Philippe-Lebon via the halls, the entire sector will be closed off from 10 a.m. Sunday June 21 to 3 a.m. Monday June 22. Motorized vehicles, bicycles and scooters will not be able to drive or park during this period.
The surrounding car parks will be free
Around twenty axes are concerned: rue Victoire de la Marne (between rue Dutailly and place de la Concorde), du Docteur-Michel (from rue Victoire de la Marne to rue des Ursulines), Saint-Louis, Laloy, de Verdun, Jules-Tréfousse (between place de la Concorde and rue des halles), Pasteur, Victor-Mariotte, Juvet, Toupot-de-Béveaux, Maîtret, Saint-Jean (from place de la Concorde to rue Bouchardon), Clemenceau, des halles, Victor-Fourcaut (between rue Victoire de la Marne and cours Marcel-Baron), Girardon (between rue Dutailly and rue de Viéville), and Damrémont (between rue Girardon and rue Bouchardon). Ruelle Lardière, Place des Halles, Place de la Concorde, Place de la Résistance and Place des Martyrs de la Résistance are also closed to traffic and parking.
For the occasion, the surrounding parking lots will be free. Motorists will be able to park in the Ursulines, Voltaire, town hall and train station car parks.
Chloé Frelat
c.frelat@jhm.fr
The complete program of the music festival in Chaumont will be found in the edition of jhm daily Thursday June 18.
Strengthening security
To avoid a second part of the scuffles that occurred last year after the music festival, the City decided to make security a point of honor. A public space security system – managed by the prefecture – will be put in place via filter barriers and “thanks to cooperation between the national police and the municipal police”, indicates the mayor, Antoine Desfretier. “The City is also mobilizing 22 agents who will be present on the perimeter. In addition, a dozen security agents from a private company are hired,” specifies Thierry Alonso, deputy in charge of daily life and security. The Reception and Support Center for Risk Reduction among Drug Users (CAARUD) and Addictions France, two prevention associations, will also be present across the city. The municipality also decreed that the music would stop at 11:30 p.m. of alcohol at midnight and that drinking establishments would close at 12:30 a.m.
