This is such a referendum in Paris in a few years, after the voting 2023. by which the prohibition of electric scooters and last year’s decision to triple parking fees for large offsets.
“In the past 25 years, we have gradually returned public space for mild traffic, as well as for ‘garden streets’, in order to create lungs within neighborhoods, places in which we live,” said the Deputy Mayor Patrick Bloche for Reuters ahead of voting.
The data of the Paris City Hall shows that car traffic in the city more than halved since the socialists took power at the turn of the century.
Under the Mayor of Anne Hidalgo, on duty since 2014, there was a significant transformation on the city streets. The data show that it is 2020. made 84 kilometers of bicycle paths, and the use of bicycles jumped by 71 percent between the end of the closure due to COVIDA-19 and 2023. years. Years.
If it is voted, an additional 10,000 parking spaces in Paris, after 10,000 have already been removed from 2020. Years. Two million inhabitants of the capital will be consulted on which streets will become pedestrian zones.
Despite recent changes, Paris lags behind other European infrastructure, which includes private gardens, parks, wetlands, which consist of a city surface as a matter of the European capital of 41 percent, according to the European Environmental Agency.
Change critics say that city hall measures are an increasing challenge for 10 million people living in the suburbs, where the network of public transport is less dense, to travel to work and perform shopping in the city center.
“It is important to know that the city of Paris is not a museum. It is still a city in which people are forced to move, where people from the wider area,” said Philippe Noziere, the leader of the Association of Car Owner 40m.
Possession of the car illustrates the difference between the center of Paris and the Suburbs: Only one of three households in the center owns a car, while it has two of the three households in the suburbs. Excluding Paris and his region, owning a car in France at the level is 85 percent.
(Vijesti.ba)