CityLab: “In Paris, Plans for a Seine Reinvention Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced an &a
CityLab: “In Paris, Plans for a Seine ReinventionMayor Anne Hidalgo has announced an “almost philosophical project” to take the famed river’s quayside back from cars.Feargus O’Sullivan. 7 May 2015Paris seems to be getting less and less motorist-friendly by the day. Following a set of promises to slash diesel usage, extend lower speed limits and bar polluting cars from the city core, Mayor Anne Hidalgo this week announced a plan to thoroughly reclaim the quayside on the right bank of the River Seine for pedestrians. With cars already banished from a long strip of the Left Bank, the Seine in central Paris will as of summer 2016 be entirely encased within two lush, motor-free parkland buffers. Sounding more French than ever, Hidalgodescribed the plan as “an urban, almost philosophical project, which consists of seeing the city in another way than through the use of cars.”Image: Rendering of a proposed Seine quayside park space. (Luxigon) -- source link
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