Designed by Louis XIV to be a place to walk, the Avenue des Champs- Elysées to find Paris Sunday, May 8th the quietude of its original purpose: pedestrians and cyclists are will now only welcome and cars banned every first Sunday of the month.
It is “the most beautiful avenue in the world but we want to show it even more beautiful,” said Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist Mayor of Paris which increases from the beginning of term in 2014, initiatives to reduce car traffic in the capital.
“When you walk on the avenue without the din of traffic, we rediscover prospects, facades, landscapes. it is true that every foreign tourist who passes through Paris will rightly come to the Champs- Elysées . But we want to bring them back to this place Parisians iconic belongs to them, “she said
Some thematic days
Sunday, from 12:00 to 20:00. – special schedule due commemorations – cars can not drive between the Place de la Concorde and the crossroads George-V / Washington Street. Future editions will last all day.
The buses will pass at the Rond-Point, Churchill Avenue between the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais will also be a pedestrian zone. The “first editions will serve as an experiment,” says Christophe Najdovski, deputy EELV to the mayor, in charge of transport.
Some of these days might be thematic, as on June 5 at the occasion of “24 Velib ‘” between the roundabout and Concorde.
But “this Sunday, it’s just an opening for pedestrians. just the pleasure to walk,” added the official. “Make the most beautiful avenue in the world to pedestrians, is to ensure that advantage otherwise this avenue is also walking hand in urban travel center. Paris is a city perfectly suited to the works, “he said.
cyclists contents
the cyclists also rejoice in advance,” this is an initiative that goes in the right direction, “said Charles Maguin , president of the association Paris saddle, “it invites him to continue in this direction”, he said regretting that the City’s cycling initiatives “are not moving very fast.”
Redevelopment tract in favor of “soft mobility”, banning polluting vehicles, etc., Paris multiplies measures to reduce the use of cars in the city.
During the “car free Day” experienced in several parts of the capital September 27, 2015, air quality observatory AirParif noted “a decline between 20 and 40% of nitrogen oxide levels,” said the deputy.
This Day which will also be renewed in the fall with a broader scope, in addition to the closure to traffic of some areas on Sunday as part of “Paris Respire”.
This summer, final pedestrianization of roads on the right bank embankment will join the Star from the Seine river without crossing cars. The avenue will next year cycle paths.
Avenue of the celebration
comic Perspective 1670 through the forest by André Le Nôtre, gardener of Louis XIV, the Avenue now houses a daily average of 300,000 visitors. “And that’s all, 190,000 employees of the district, the Parisians, tourists,” said Edouard Lefebvre, general delegate of the Champs- Committee Elysées which includes the traders.
Victory in the World Cup, 14 July parade, New Year, “is the Avenue of the celebration, an avenue to the popular and prestigious,” he said . It is always a place for walking, culture and entertainment with restaurants, cinemas, exhibitions of the Petit and Grand Palais. Only 23% of visitors are just for shopping, he said.
A redevelopment of the “Fields” is under consideration for 2025. The avenue will-t- it totally pedestrian day? “Why not?” Said Christophe Najdovski, “or at least with only public transport. There is no fate that they remain overwhelmed by traffic,” he said.
(with AFP)
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