The 35-kilometer circular ring, which will celebrate its half-century in 2023, is a “gray belt that we would like to see transform into a green belt” by 2030, said the ex-candidate of the Ps Wednesday presidential.
Le Monde with AFP
A major project. Anne Hidalgo promised, Wednesday, May 18, during a press conference, to green 10 hectares of the ring road in Paris and to plant 70,000 trees there by reducing the number of traffic lanes. The PS mayor of the capital wants to make the ring road an urban boulevard like the others, as suggested by a note written for the Progressive Think Tank Terra Nova in 2019.
The 35-kilometer circular ring, which will celebrate its half-century in 2023, is a “gray belt that we would like to see transform into a green belt” by 2030, said the ex-candidate of the PS to The presidential election, who wants to offer 500,000 inhabitants living on both sides of this rapid axis a “more harmonious, more pleasant living environment”.
The device now most often has four ways by direction of traffic. “Our goal is twice three ways on the entire infrastructure,” said his assistant (Europe Ecologie-les Verts, EELV) to mobility David Belliard. The “Olympic Way”, reserved for participants of the 2024 Olympic Games (athletes, officials, rescue), will then be allocated to buses, taxis and carpooling, said Belliard, for whom these measures will allow to withdraw 80,000 traffic vehicles.
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radical opposition from the region
To carry out this project, M Me hidalgo, the first municipal mandate of which had been marked by a long politico-judicial fight to transform the tracks on the banks of the right bank into a pedestrian walk, intends to lead “all legal consultations” and promises “to listen to” motorists, but also “truckers, traders”. The horizon of 2030, that is after the end of his second mandate (2026), must allow “people to adapt” to this change, she said.
It should face the radical opposition on this file of the right president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, who had in 2021 asked the State to reconsider this municipal infrastructure as a regional infrastructure And asked for “impact studies” before the town hall launched its projects.
Another ex-presidential candidate, M Me Pécresse had organized an online consultation in which 90 % of the voters opposed the “deletion” of a route on the ring road. On the device, 40 % of the journeys are from suburbs to suburb, and 80 % of users are not Parisians, according to the region.