STORY – During the 2020 municipal election campaign, the mayor of Paris announced her intention to “make central Paris pedestrian-friendly”. In the end, the Socialist mayor imposed her project, albeit with some difficulty.
“The center of Paris becomes a limited traffic zone (ZTL)”. This Monday, November 4, Anne Hidalgo didn’t fail to congratulate herself on her social networks. After four years of hard work, the capital’s mayor is finally keeping her 2020 campaign promise by limiting vehicle access to the heart of the capital… Two years late, and at the cost of major concessions. A symbol of his political will to reduce the number of cars in the city, the introduction of the ZTL gave him a hard time. At local level, it provoked lively debate and a tug-of-war with the State and several borough mayors.
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