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Paris will consult its inhabitants to reuse the space of 70,000 parking spaces
The City plans to consult Parisians this week to redevelop the space gained by the removal of nearly 70,000 on-street parking spaces – two and a half times the surface area of the Buttes Chaumont park.
The mayor is speeding up the elimination of 50% of on-street parking spaces. His deputy David Belliard, in charge of the transformation of public space, transport, mobility, the street code and highways, relaunched the subject in an interview for Le Parisien. The City plans to consult Parisians this week on possible new jobs in this space.
“We want to make the air more breathable and make public space available to Parisians who often live in cramped apartments – the average surface area is only 30 square meters – and want more peace. 60% of noise pollution is linked to traffic, ”he said.
Nearly 70,000 parking spaces will be eliminated, three times the surface area of the Luxembourg Gardens, and two and a half times the Buttes-Chaumont park. “The objective is to deplete the city in order to revegetate in the ground and prepare us for periods of heatwave which will be more and more frequent. We will also develop new bicycle infrastructure, gardens, street furniture, public toilets, fountains, café terraces, sports facilities… ”continues David Belliard.
Internet consultation
The consultation will be launched this week on an Internet platform. A citizens’ convention is also planned for November, with a group of Parisians drawn at random, who will propose planning ideas for these spaces. Some projects will be drawn and applied.
As an alternative to on-street parking, David Belliard hopes to encourage the use of underground parking spaces: “The idea is to allow them to park it in an underground car park at suitable rates by optimizing the availability of underground spaces. -ground”. He hopes to lower prices by negotiating with parking lot managers in the short term.
Asked about the strengthening of the exclusion of Ile-de-France residents, poorly served by public transport and who will be even more cut off from Paris by not being able to get there and park by car, the deputy kicks in: “Our policy does not does not aim to eliminate parking spaces but to make better use of underground parking lots. Ile-de-France residents who cannot come to Paris other than by car can park in the basement. ”
Other short-term measures: make the parking of motorized two-wheelers chargeable and reduce the speed of circulation in the city to 30 km / h.
