There is a “weather report” for every epidermal topic. This is the response imagined by the Paris City Council to try to calm the most heated controversies of the moment. Could you not swim in the Seine for the Paris 2024 Games? Two months before the start of the competitions, the river had its weekly water quality report. Every Friday, before the temporary takeover of Paris 2024, beautiful curves showed whether bacteria levels respected regulatory thresholds or not. From Friday, October 18, it is the turn of the ring road, including the reduction of speed to 50 km/h, on the 1Ahem October, which is talked about so much, so that everyone can access their medical check-up on the Parisian municipality’s website, Paris.fr.
For those who oppose the step from 70 km/h to 50 km/h, starting with Valérie Pécresse, president (Les Républicains) of the Ile-de-France region, driving slower would not have as much impact on noise reduction. air pollution. And that would be debatable when it comes to traffic jams. The right wing of Ile-de-France also denounces an antisocial measure. At the end of September, the region announced the creation of a monthly barometer with indicators on noise, air pollution, speed and traffic jams for each Ile-de-France resident to evaluate “the impact of the decisions of the city of Paris”.
The teams of Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor, respond with a similar but more frequent tool: five figures published every Friday, which give “The weather” of urban roads compared to the previous year. All of “raw data, factual elements, objectified”to respond to “fake news”explains David Belliard, deputy for the Environment responsible for the transformation of public space and transport.
“Settings”
The number one bulletin of the municipal version of the Paris ring road covers the week from September 30 to October 4. This is a transition period as we had to wait until October 10th for all panels to be replaced. Whatever. “The effects of the advertisement work. There are settings » about behaviors, And the effects are already positive, says Belliard together with Patrick Bloche, first deputy of the socialist mayor, Dan Lert, elected person in charge of the ecological transition, and representatives of environmental services and large projects. If the traffic speed during the day remains stable (37.7 km/h), it decreased between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. (55.1 km/h), as did nighttime noise pollution (– 2.6 decibels ), the bulletin states. Air pollution is also lower, such as traffic jams (-37%) and accidents (-68%).
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