Heart of Paris to be quasi traffic-free

After reducing the speed limit from 70km/hr to 50km/hr on the ring roads all around the city of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, has finally succeeded in prohibiting traffic in the "hyper centre", or the very heart of the French capital.

- Roshan Bourget

The Town Hall of Paris published a decree earlier this week establishing a limited traffic zone; an area stretching over 5.5 sq km in the hypercentre, that is, the first four arrondissements or districts or localities of Paris where transit vehicles that only pass through those areas without stopping will be prohibited. The zone extends from the Concorde in the west, to the Place de la Bastille in the east, following the grand boulevards. It then descends towards the south, to the banks of the river Seine.

After several years of negotiations about these regulations that kept dragging on, these measures were supposed to be implemented two years ago in 2022. It is only now that they are finally seeing the light of day.