Nice piece on Paris's outgoing mayor, Anne Hidalgo.

“It was a tough battle. Very tough. But I strongly believed the roads had to be pedestrianised so that people could enjoy the riverbanks, and that once they were pedestrianised and people had that experience, they wouldn’t want to go back. And that’s what has happened,” Hidalgo says.

#WarOnCars #Climate #Urbanism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/changing-a-city-is-complicated-anne-hidalgo-looks-back-on-12-years-as-paris-mayor