The thousands of motorists stuck in Parisian traffic jams will certainly have been delighted to learn that new restrictions on traffic in the capital were put in place at the beginning of November, to preserve the planet and give space to “soft mobility”. “. Should they become harsh immobilities.
This is the latest episode in Anne Hidalgo's fight against the automobile. Four Parisian districts, in the heart of the world city, have been prohibited to anyone who wants to cross them by car, whatever the reason. To enter this immense central area, curiously resembling a hermetically sealed oyster, you now need a reason, an excuse. Including that of living or working there. But you will have to be able to prove it. And it doesn't matter what the economic cost of all this is.
It is easy to imagine the joy, in their municipal administration offices, of the zealous peacekeeping protection agents refining the list of supporting documents that every motorist will have to produce to validate their intrusion into the space. An unfortunate memory of times of confinement, except that you will have to excuse yourself from entering, not from leaving.
Around the same time, the auto industry is threatened with billions of euros in fines devised by Europe against manufacturers lagging behind in the production of electric vehicles that buyers are still not rushing to buy. The car sees its future slipping away from under its wheels, subcontractors, suppliers, Valeos, Michelins, launch social plans, close factories. Aware of the threat, the government will try to have Brussels modify the sanctions regime to which car manufacturers would be liable. It's time. But who will rehabilitate the idea, in Paris as elsewhere, that the car is a synonym of freedom, not destruction?
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