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Paris Mayor Trying to Remove Highways around Eiffel Tower

A car-free Eiffel Tower zone? Paris mayor faces pushback

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240210-a-car-free-eiffel-tower-zone-paris-mayor-faces-pushback

Removing cars from an expanse around the Eiffel Tower to create a green pathway sounds pretty good on paper, but the mayor of Paris is struggling to win over residents and above all the police force…

Getting resistance from the Chief of Police and others.

3 comments

Kuinox

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This is not an highway.
The Chief of Police always have been against removing the cars from the city. He said bike lanes slowed intervention speed. Real data showed otherwise: double bike lane can be used by emergency vehicule, and effectively lowered the time of intervention for emergency vehicule.

hex_m_hell

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Hey look, it's the intersection of my two favorite communities fuckcars and policearetheproblem.

mosscap

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Anne Hidalgo is a goddamn saint

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