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.

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@BrentToderian Amazing! I am jealous. Wann Deutschland, wann?!
@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.