Piétonnisation of the road on the banks of 168 mayors write to Anne Hidalgo – The Point

The prohibition of these 3.3 km for cars continues to talk to her. On Wednesday, 168 mayors of Île-de-France, mainly LR, which are a challenge to the mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo on the closure of the road on the banks right bank, in an open letter, where they are associated with the appeal filed by the region in front of the administrative court to challenge this measure. In this open letter published on the website of the Figaro, these elected officials, among whom Patrick Balkany, Gilles Carrez, Jean-François Copé, Rachida Dati, Claude Goasguen, Philippe Goujon, Christian Jacob, Yves Jégo, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, Gérard Larcher, André Santini, Jean-François Vigier, or Georges Tron, denounced a “unil ateral decision” that has ” dramatic effects on the worsening of the plugs “. “Increasing congestion leads to the deterioration of the daily lives of tens of thousands of ile-de-france who want to exercise their professional activity, sometimes more than an hour of their home. “

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They denounced ” the indifference to the inhabitants of the small and the great crown “. “The residents of our towns who are working in Paris, the Parisians who work in our towns, and who do not have the ability to move in public transport insufficient, or already saturated, tired and angry,” write elected officials, claiming that the projects of piétonnisation of Paris ” should be reconsidered in the consultation, transparency and with the aim of territorial cohesion “. “This is why we decided to file the action for annulment of that decision, or that we join in the appeal filed by the region and the departments of the Île-de-France “, they concluded.

The region, presided over by Valérie Pécresse (The Republicans), and five departments in the île de france (Hauts-de-Seine, Yvelines, Val-d’oise, Essonne and Seine-et-Marne) filed on 24 November an appeal before the Paris administrative court to challenge the piétonnisation of the road on the banks right bank appointed by the mayor, PS, Paris. Desired by Anne Hidalgo to fight against the pollution of the air, the closing of the voie Georges-Pompidou, which continues to generate controversy, cars are not permitted in 3.3 km from the wharf down along the Seine, the entrance of the tunnel des Tuileries (1st arrondissement) at the exit of the tunnel Henri-IV (4th).