Paris (AFP) – The alternating traffic will be set up in Paris on Monday because of the pollution, unless it falls during the weekend, said Friday Segolene Royal, after a day of controversy and criticism of the Paris elected on the wait-government, two days of departmental.
“On Monday, there will be alternating traffic unless there is a clear decline in pollution tomorrow ( Saturday) and after tomorrow (Sunday), “said Ms Royal on Friday night during a press conference.
The decision will be announced Saturday before 8:00 p.m.. “My first concern is to protect public health,” she said, noting that “decisions should be well suited.”
She said to be in constant contact with the Paris Hospitals who did not, she said, pointed peak of hospitalizations related to this episode of high pollution. Unlike the peak of spring 2014, when the alternating traffic had finally been put in place for a day, for the first time since 1997.
The minister, who confirmed the free public transport in the capital “on Saturday”, took the opportunity to appeal to cities so that they promote within five years clean transport and “become respirable.”
The tone was mounted Friday with the Ile elected The mayor PS, Anne Hidalgo, asking alternating traffic again, after the refusal Thursday by the state.
“I find it shocking, really shocking (…) There no need to have a lot of thinking to say that we must do something and fast, “the former minister estimated EELV Cécile Duflot on RTL.
The MP for Paris noted that the peak pollution with PM10 lasted Tuesday. Friday, the alert threshold (80 micrograms / m3) was again exceeded in Ile-de-France, as in many departments in the north-east of France, and quality monitoring agency of the air Airparif planned for Saturday exceeding the information threshold (50μg / m3).
Taking almost identically its press yesterday, the mayor of Paris asked again in the early afternoon setting up for Saturday’s emergency measures, alternating traffic and free transport.
“There is no good reason to wait an additional 48 hours,” reacted with AFP spokesman EELV Julien Bayou, suspecting the government to procrastinate because of the “proximity departmental.”
President Francois Hollande has interfered in the debate from Brussels stating that decisions on alternating traffic would be taken “at the end of the afternoon”
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Ségolène Royal s’ has strived since Thursday to justify his caution, questioning on Twitter Cécile Duflot and the media. “No reasonable to impose so fast that galley to the suburbs. Ask first Parisians take transport + electric bus,” she wrote Thursday evening on the social network.
Then Friday morning: “What is needed in Paris and in major cities, it’s a real clean transport policy for all days No punitive decisions.”. And at the town hall of Paris: “What has been done concrete in the district where she (Cécile Duflot, note) is elected for clean transport every day?”
Answer the City by the pen of the first deputy Bruno Julliard (PS). “Let us all work + + bravitude and protect the health and emergency Parisians Parisians. # Circulationalternée” was it fun.
On Friday at midday, about fifty people demonstrated to the Ministry of Ecology, the call of EELV and elected Left Front. The Assistant Transport in Paris Christophe Najdovski, MP Denis Baupin and regional councilor Emmanuelle Cosse (all EELV) were received by Ségolène Royal.
“constructive meeting with Emergency Action on Vite” said in a tweet Denis Baupin, on a more peaceful.
The leader of the UMP in Paris, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, denounced the “inaction of the municipality and open polemics with the government, “citing the greedily about … Segolene Royal.
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