The Paris town hall wants to “take the time” of a public inquiry. She clarified that this measure would not concern residents, traders, people with reduced mobility or people “going to the theater or at friends”.
Le Monde with AFP
The prohibition of transit car traffic in the center of Paris, which concerns 50% of the current traffic, is postponed from 2022 to early 2024, announced, Thursday, February 17, the town hall of Paris, which wishes to “take the time “of a public inquiry. In this zone with limited traffic (ZTL), renamed “soothing zone”, it is planned to limit the traffic, by reserving the traffic to certain categories of vehicles.
David Belliard, Deputy Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) to the transformation of the public space of the Mayor PS, Anne Hidalgo, said that in 2024 the prohibition would not concern residents, traders, people to Reduced mobility, employees or people “going to the theater or at friends”, neither emergency vehicles, bus, bicycles, taxis and VTC or car caring vehicles. The acceptance of tourist vehicles with driver (VTC) within this “soothing zone” will be conditioned on a “occupation of the profession on the greening of the fleet”, “said Belliard.
Motorcycles and scooters will be accepted according to the same principle: it will have to have “something to do in the area” to be able to circulate it, said the ecologist assistant. The area concerned is all the first four districts of Paris and the parts of the e and 7 e borough, located between Saint-Germain Boulevard and Seine.
Strengthen “The attractiveness” of the heart of the capital
“Anyone in the world can come to the center of Paris to come shopping,” has illustrated the first deputy (PS) Emmanuel Grégoire. But the town hall does not want “no more transit traffic, which represents about 50% of the traffic of the area, for having only destination traffic,” said Belliard. Prior to the public inquiry launched late 2022 or early 2023, the town hall will conduct an impact study that will be complemented by the police prefecture, said the first deputy (PS) Emmanuel Grégoire.
The Town Hall wanted to “relax the calendar for the benefit of legal robustness,” he justified to explain the postponement of one of the headlight projects of Anne Hidalgo. This “soothing zone”, which will have to be ready for the Olympic Games, must allow to “fight against air pollution and noise nuisance related to car traffic”, to fluidize the traffic of bicycles, pedestrians and authorized vehicles. and strengthen “the attractiveness” of the Capital’s heart, “said Grégoire.
At the time the Mayor of Paris is preparing to prohibit the entire center of the capital with transit car traffic, an analysis of the Institute of Public Policy (IPP) made public in May 2021 had highlighted the limits , or even the counterproductive character, anti-vicure measures already taken by the Rose-Green Coalition which runs the City Hall.