Paris Mayor: “Forget Crossing Through The City By Car” – Forbes
Carlton Reid 08:26am EDT
In the first major interview since her re-election as Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that her manifesto promise to crack down on motoring in the French capital would be kept.
“We must forget the crossing of Paris from east to west by car,” she told the daily newspaper.
‘The city needs to evolve,” she added.
Comfortably re-elected in June for a second term, she said she intends to create permanent curb-protected cycleways and expand the number of lockdown cycleways, known in French as “coronapistes.” At an urban planning conference later this month she also plans to reveal plans on restricting petrol-powered motoring on the usually car-clogged highways on the upper quays of the Seine.