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Soon, 1000 new pedestrian streets in the capital?

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As the role of cars is being increasingly questioned in the city over the past few weeks, measures are popping up to protect fans of gentle mobility. Cyclists and especially pedestrians are seeing the streets redesigned for their greater joy and comfort. And the latest trend? The creation of 1000 streets completely dedicated to walking.

It's official! Ever since Anne Hidalgo announced that she won't run again in 2026, the race for the City Hall of Paris has truly begun. After Rémi Féraud, it's now Emmanuel Grégoire, the former first deputy of our beloved mayor, who is ready to unveil his program. And one thing’s for certain, he’s aiming to drastically speed up the pedestrianization process in the capital.


A True Cockfight

To make soft mobility easier, Rémi Féraud, backed by Anne Hidalgo, recently announced his desire to expand the brand new low traffic zone in the city center to cover the entire City of Light. This measure aims to limit traffic within the city, to reduce...accidents, but also pollution, which his opponent considers generally nice, but far from sufficient.

To significantly reduce the space for cars once and for all, Emmanuel Grégoire is proposing to increase the number of "school streets", and more broadly to create pedestrian streets of all kinds. His goal, he says, is to reach by the end of his potential term a total of 1000 streets accessible only by foot, out of the nearly 6500 streets in the capital.


A project already well underway

To achieve this, the (perhaps) future mayor of Paris hopes to implement a schedule by district, to address the needs and issues of each of the mayors of Paris. It’s quite an interesting project, which fits perfectly into the ongoing initiatives started by Anne Hidalgo.

since the beginning of her terms.

For example, we'll remember the complete pedestrianization of the banks of the Seine in 2019, or the implementation of the first "school streets," of which we now have just over 200 examples throughout the capital. A wave of transformations that the current mayor intends to continue leading until the end of her term, aiming to increase this number by around a hundred. All this to say: put on your sneakers, and long live walking!