Conceived as a global action plan for, and as a supporting backbone of patrimonial, urban, environmental and landscape aspects, ensuring the reclaiming of territories in relation to the river, the initial version of the Garonne Plan orientation scheme was approved in the shape of an evolving orientation scheme by the deliberation of the Community Council of 30 June 2000.
Included in the Agglomeration agreement for the improvement of natural spaces (action 232-1), the defined action plan led the partners, working with city councils and the competent bodies for:
- the landscaping of areas near the river and the cleaning of banks,
- the preservation and improvement of natural spaces and swamps,
- the rehabilitation of walkways along the riverbanks,
- the preservation and improvement of the valuable patrimony (belvederes, historical sites),
- nautical equipment and river houses,
- tourism and river transport.
Although the actions included in the Garonne Plan basically take over the city initiative and imply the PAB agreement, the Urban Community, however, keeps its direct competence in handling aspect concerning walkways along the riverbanks.

The stakes are identified: it is essentially a matter of valorising the landscape patrimony of agglomeration, its valuable sites, thanks to the development of transport as an alternative to cars (intermodal transport river shuttles/bicycles/pedestrians).
The "Garonne Plan walkways" must therefore be a common reference framework for programming the development of community walkways along the river.
The objective of the study actually equally includes the definition of operational opportunities within the framework of current or future projects with an impact on the community (GPV des Hauts de Garonne, administrative park project des jalles, Bordeaux urban project, Bordeaux North project,…); or projects by the city council (reclaiming of the Lormont banks), and that have a link with projects concerning the adjacent territories (Estuary project -CIADT 09/07/2001-, SIBG projects for the area upstream, …), and are included in the initial steps at national level (Cycling tracks and Green paths project (CIADT 5/12/98).
The Objectives are clear:
- identifying the community's points of interest: valuable sites and patrimonies, the agglomeration natural spaces in relation to the Garonne and the Dordogne,
- developing access to the riverbank and linking again natural spaces by providing a network of walkways on and towards the riverbanks,
- promoting the continuity and comfort of cycling tracks along the river, defining the program for the creation of walkways along the river from the Ambès et Parempuyre peninsula to Bouliac northbound, and to Villenave d'Ornon southbound.

Urban pathways
This is the planning for the central part of the urbanised agglomeration.
By connecting pedestrian pathways, cycling tracks and relative developments -vegetation, rest areas, furniture, there is a need for a careful and ambitious handling that must be of the same level as for other developments carried out on public spaces that are symbolic of the agglomeration; obviously, such ambition is what will lead to the most important investments.

Mixed walkways
These are pathways that cross the peripheral sectors and that are integrated over a same band of slow circulation for both pedestrians and bicycles;
They have the pace, in the peripheral urban cloth (Bacalan, Bordeaux Nord, Tartifume,…) of the great pedestrian walkways such as those we find inside parks;
In the natural sectors of the swamps in the North and on the Peninsula, they are itineraries resembling exploitation tracks, where a continuous band of grass separates the two paths. These mixed walkways are divided into two categories: the main mixed walkways whose creation is indispensable for the continuity of the path or for their obvious interesting aspect; the secondary mixed walkways, whose creation may be extended to a medium or long term.

Cycling tracks
These are those we find in the agglomeration. Simple bands on the carriageway in those parts that are more trafficked; on RD 10, which, in compliance with the decisions by the pilot committee of the Garonne Plan, must be declassed to tourist route along the water, it is possible imagining the creation of bi-directional cycling tracks, like those created along the water in Bouliac; a possible solution upstream from Saint Louis de Montferrand, and on both sides of Ambés, is very strong as it implies the reduction of the carriageway to one-way only. The inconveniencies of such a proposal are largely compensated by the attractiveness of peaceful riverbanks.