Anne Hidalgo’s second mandate at the head of the City of Paris could make car drivers gnash their teeth. Between the closure of roads along the riverbank, the reduction of parking places, and the limitation of the most polluting vehicles, Paris gives less space to cars.
Other measures are planned by the crusade against pollution. Therefore, rumor has it that the overall speed in Paris could be limited to 30km/h instead of 50km/h as it is the case. The City of Paris is also for limiting traffic on the beltway to 50km/h instead of 70km/h. As for bikeways – created at the end of the first lockdown – they could become permanent.
Paris a lancé sa concertation sur le projet de Zone apaisée pour Paris Centre et le nord du boulevard Saint-Germain.
— David Belliard (@David_Belliard) May 12, 2021
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Tweet reads: “Paris launched their concertation on the ‘Zone Apaisée’ project in Paris city center and northern part of the Boulevard Saint-Germain”.
We have also been told the city of Paris has another bold project: making the city center almost free of cars by 2022. A tweet from Paris deputy mayor David Belliard reads that as part of the “Zone Apaisée” project, the city wishes to ban private people’s cars from the historic center. A first phase consulting Parisians started this Wednesday May 12, 2021 in the evening.
The goal of such a process? Limiting the place of cars in the city even more while encouraging walking or bicycling. This area could cover the entire city center of Paris and also some part of the Saint-Germain neighborhood.
