Enedis crews are working the boulevard de Garavan and Porte de France right now, switching public lighting to LED, and Menton’s mayor used a neighbourhood meeting on Wednesday 4 November 2026 to lay out what is running, what is delayed and what comes next for the Garavan and city-centre districts. Speaking in the refectory of the Daudet school, Alexandra Masson reviewed the construction sites of the Garavan and Centre-ville sector and announced a series of timelines and delivery dates. Nice-Matin published the full account of the meeting: https://www.nicematin.com/societe/boulevard-de-garavan-marche-u-centre-ville-ligne-18-piste-cyclable-ce-que-la-maire-de-menton-alexandra-masson-a-annonce-aux-habitants-lors-de-la-reunion-de-quartier-10754282
The electrical works come with fixed calendar anchors. The LED conversion on the boulevard runs until the end of December. At Porte de France, the relamping operation is scheduled to finish in February, ahead of the start of the Fête du Citron.
Traffic-calming and pavement repairs are also on the schedule. At number 91 of the boulevard de Garavan, a raised crossing (a speed cushion) will become operational very shortly. At numbers 34 and 75, sidewalk repairs are planned. In the city centre, on avenue Albert 1er, the water and sanitation network refurbishment carried out by the Carf is due to run until January. Nearby, the renovation of the Place Loredan-Larchey square is in its finishing phase. The Daudet school itself will get air conditioning, with installation set for the Christmas holidays.
Public transport delivery featured prominently. Since the revision of the collective transport network, the municipality reports rising ridership: up 22 percent on line 18, which has been extended to the CHPG, and up 25 percent on the electric city-centre shuttle. Residents nonetheless flagged access problems, citing a lack of connections towards the La Palmosa hospital and certain neighbourhoods. In response, a re-evaluation of the network, including line 8, has been announced for the end of the year, once users’ remarks have been collected, with a target launch in January.
Enforcement of public space has also produced measurable results: 733 abandoned vehicles were removed from these neighbourhoods and taken to the impound lot.
Meanwhile, two longer-term files were addressed. The first concerns the Super U supermarket of Garavan. Faced with residents visibly worried about the store’s future, the municipality confirmed its continued operation, within the framework of a future global redevelopment of the Garavan and Rondelli sector. The second concerns the former CPAM building near Menton station, currently squatted by homeless people, which will be the subject of a project with Habitat 06.
The seafront cycle path drew direct criticism. One user described it as dangerous, and it was judged insufficiently identifiable, both for cyclists and for pedestrians. The technical services acknowledged the limits of a temporary layout. “We are in discussion with the Département to support us,” the meeting heard. An improvement of the surface and a clearer differentiation of the spaces are being considered.
The meeting closed with a horizon of two to three years for the Place Fornari, which is to be redesigned with the aim of becoming pedestrian. Taken together, the announcements sketch a delivery pipeline running from works completed within weeks, such as the raised crossing and the LED conversion, through January deadlines for the Carf networks and the bus network revision, to multi-year projects like the Garavan and Rondelli redevelopment and the Place Fornari. For residents, the test now is whether each of these timelines holds, from the February lighting deadline at Porte de France to the promised January relaunch of the bus network.