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Limit speed to 30km / h in Paris? "The commuters will still drink"

2020-06-18T12:42:33.397Z


12 days before the second municipal round, the proposals of outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo, who also wants to limit the speed to 50 km / hs


In the very chic west of Paris, speed on avenue Paul-Doumer (16th), like most streets in the arrondissement, is still limited to 50 km / h. So go to 30 km / h, as the outgoing mayor (PS) Anne Hidalgo wishes, "it would be safer, especially near schools", judge Rafael, a resident of the district who drives "from time to time". On the other hand, "the main boulevards must remain fluid and at 50 km / h," he adds immediately.

Approaching the second round of municipal elections on June 28, the measures advocated by Anne Hidalgo, candidate for her re-election who on Tuesday June 16 proposed to generalize the limitation to 30km / h throughout the capital and to increase to 50k / h on the ring road divides Parisians and inhabitants of the suburbs.

"I would ban all cars"

"I travel by bike and I was hit twice by taxis near the Trocadéro," says Dario, who lives in the 17th century. Thirty km / h, yes, but above all you have to create real separate bike paths. There is nothing in this sector, cars occupy all the space ”.

Salam, a retiree who has lived in the neighborhood "for 40 years" would like to go even further. "If it was up to me, I would ban all cars!" We should do as in Florence, Italy, with all the parking lots outside the center. I know people don't vote too green here, but young people are changing. ”

"Driving in Paris has become horror"

A stone's throw away, Marthe cleans the windshield of her old Renault at a service station, she doesn't agree. "Ecology? I'm for, but not like Hidalgo! she fumes. Driving in Paris has become a horror. Look, I'm not rich, but I need my car, I'm a sculptor. The periphery at 50 km / h, it will not affect its constituents, it is only for sores, healthy singles, and not independents like me.

Same opinion, on the other side of the capital in a service station from the 12th century: “The ring road at 50 km / h, it's not possible! plague Emmanuel, 37, resident of the district. I take it once or twice a week. Especially to go see my parents in the west of Paris. It's always blocked. ”

"We will have to leave us alone," blows Guy 42, from Vincennes (Val-de-Marne). We don't take the car for fun. How do you do when you have a stroller and an appointment in Paris? " “It will kill the business, fears Sofiane, driver VTC. The hypercentre is already impracticable. If journey times get longer, customers will take the metro. And we will no longer have a job. ”

“Parisians will enjoy the calm, they will travel by scooter. But the commuters are going to have a hard time ", judge Fernando, chauffeur./LP/Jila Varoquier  

A little far away, Bernard, a deliveryman in a van, leaves for Paris to drop off the rest of his cargo: “Since the Seine quays have been closed, work areas have already been extended to avoid traffic jams. We deliver earlier in the morning and later in the evening. Are we going to have to do the nights now? " Olivier, a car preparer, is taken with an endless laugh: "She will get there," he ends up saying. There will be no more cars in Paris, but no more inhabitants either ”.

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“You know what, sighs Fernando, a 52-year-old driver, parked in a parking space waiting for a race, it is the commuters who are going to drink. Parisians will enjoy the calm, they will travel by scooter. But the commuters, they will struggle. All businesses are in Paris or at La Défense, and public transport is not enough. So they will spend more time in the car. "

Source: leparis

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