John LloydDec 27, 2022
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In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

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Paris Is Banning Traffic Crossing the City Center From 2024

The French capital will ban non-essential traffic passing through the city in time for the Olympics.

Bloomberg
Dec 27, 2022 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadM4lu Dec 27, 2022
@keylimepie olha o post
Show threadIan Hecht 🇨🇦Dec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian Is this for the Olympics?
Show threada world without carsDec 27, 2022
@ianhecht @BrentToderian it is supposed to be enacted in time for the Olympics but is not something they're only doing during the Olympics - it's a long term goal of reducing cars in the city according to the article.
Show threadstringerDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian @ianhecht nothing to do with olympics. Explanation already in the post: Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move.
Show threadThalassDec 27, 2022
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I think I'm gonna have to try and visit Paris in a year or two.
Show threadJulien LanooDec 27, 2022

@Thalass @BrentToderian temper expectations ;) - is my best tip.
And don't use a backpack, as tourists... Certainly not on public transport. Even though the metro is the best way to get around the centre, it's also the best place to get robbed, as a tourist.

Ooh and go in 3 yrs, rather than 2.
In 2 years, prices will be exorbitantly high (olympics), go after the Olympics...

Show threadThalassDec 27, 2022

@julienlanoo

Ah good point! I guess I don't pay enough attention to the olympics 😅

Show threadJulien LanooDec 27, 2022

@Thalass don't worry me neither. Its a huge annoyance already ( lots of works going on). And we re already anticipating not being able to work in Paris during 2 months.

Pritty sure every single parisian will already run away end of June from Paris.

I insure you every single Parisian hates Olympics being there ( well they hate most things :p) and already now, wish it was over🤪

Show threadTimur FriedmanDec 27, 2022
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Unfortunately, the project might not go through as planned. City hall does not have a free hand in such matters, and the prefect (the representative of the national state) can veto all or part of the initiative.
The last I had read about it, in Le Parisien this past summer, it looked possible that the Left Bank portion would be dropped from the limited traffic zone.
Story (paywalled and in French): https://leparisien.fr/paris-75/circulation-a-paris-la-zone-a-trafic-limite-reduite-au-centre-historique-sans-la-rive-gauche-31-07-2022-KNGF4BAKJNAKJANGXPGTKQEZNY.php?xtor=AD-366 Circulation à Paris : la zone à trafic limité réduite au centre historique, sans la rive gauche ?
Circulation à Paris : la zone à trafic limité réduite au centre historique, sans la rive gauche ?

Destiné à supprimer tout trafic de transit au cœur de Paris, le projet se heurte notamment aux réserves de la préfecture de police et des maires d’arrondissement de la rive gauche. Ces derniers pourraient obtenir gain de cause, et voir leur territoire exclu de la zone.

Le Parisien
Show threadJulien LanooDec 27, 2022
@timur @BrentToderian why wld someone drive through the 1st arr, ? You only drive that way if you really have to be there. - also look further in replies to the post of @timur, the zone is/will be smaller. To purely the "tourist"-zone,.. logic...
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 27, 2022

@BrentToderian which is a good idea - even tho they only seem to have chosen the 1e Arrondissement and not the entire inner city with all...

Tho I'm shure those will follow suit...

Show threadJeff ♨️ DarcyDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian This is the way. If devoting so much space to automobiles is a problem, the solution is *not* to devote even more space to exactly one other form of locomotion. It's to reclaim the space and let *the people* decide which mix of alternatives they prefer.
Show threadJudith Lewis MernitDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian Never once have I had the urge to drive through Paris.
Show threadFanua 🌐Dec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian Even better, #Paris city center is very walkable already.
Show threadCatherine BrownDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian wow - that’s phenomenal. Can’t wait to visit paris and experience the difference. If only Rome and London would go next!
Show threadJonathan Baker-BatesDec 27, 2022
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Here in London, UK, anyone can drive their car into the centre if they pay a very small daily charge. Traffic is pretty bad most days. And sometimes I'd just love to ask those drivers sitting in their cars looking at green traffic lights just WHY they are there?
Show threadSiegfried.Dec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian Amazing! I am jealous. Wann Deutschland, wann?!
Show threadWill LoweDec 27, 2022
@realSiegfried @BrentToderian My Berlin experience with "bicycle streets" where in theory only cars of people who live there and emergency vehicles can go (effectively the Paris proposal I think) is that they're used as extra free parking (every 10th license plate is from out of town, so that's a rough lower bound) and as cut-through routes. The optimistic picture is that this is because hardly anything is enforced. But that is, of course, endogenous.
Show threadDaniel PaveyDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian I am increasingly feeling greater and greater affection for the French ❤️❤️🇫🇷
Show threadnhbDec 27, 2022

@BrentToderian the bigger news is that the traffic sewer that is Brussels is ALSO changing!

Brussels will see non-local traffic banished altogether, along with a slate of street revisions, lane reductions & pedestrianization measures to help eliminate collision hotspots, throughout its “Pentagon Zone.”

Show threadBen PyeDec 27, 2022
@BrentToderian I hope this kills the argument that ‘you can’t restrict vehicles because what about deliveries/accessibility/etc’.
Show threadDavid Scott MoyerDec 28, 2022
@BrentToderian Every major city should do this.
Show threadFBToastDec 28, 2022
@BrentToderian we need to do this in London. What bliss.