仏パリ、ほぼ全道路で制限速度３０キロに　８月末から

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス・パリ市当局は８日、市内ほぼ全ての道路で８月末から制限速度を時速３０キロとすると発表した。交通事故や騒音の削減、気候変動対策などを目的としている。（写真は資料写真）
　パリは欧州有数の人口密集都市。来年の仏大統領選への出馬を検討している社会党のアンヌ・イダルゴ市長は、市内の公共空間における自動車の占有分を減らすと約束している。
　パリではすでに市内の道路の約６０％に時速３０キロの速度制限が導入されている。また、２０１６年のイダルゴ市長就任後、多くの道路が片側１車線や歩行者専用になった。
　緑の党所属のダビッド・ベリアール副市長（交通担当）によると、８月以降、高速走行が認められるのは市を囲む?環状道路と一部の主要道路のみとなる。同氏はＡＦＰに、「大事なのは自動車の占有空間を減らすことで、そのためには速度を下げる必要がある」と述べ、自転車や歩行者の安全性が向上すると強調した。
　イダルゴ市長は、約１４万台分ある路上駐車スペースのうち６万台分を撤去する計画も進めている。さらに来年、駐車料金の値上げに合わせて、これまで無料だったオートバイやスクーターの駐輪も有料化する。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/07/09-14:42）

Paris will impose a speed limit of 30 kph (19 mph) on nearly all streets by late August in a bid to reduce accidents and noise pollution while adapting the city for the fight against climate change, an official said Thursday.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo, a Socialist who is weighing a run for the presidency next year, has pledged to reduce the amount of public space dedicated to cars in one of Europe's densest cities.
Already around 60 percent of the capital's streets have 30 kph limits, and since Hidalgo took office in 2016 many others have been reduced to single lanes or turned over entirely to pedestrians.
After August, only the main ring road surrounding Paris and major boulevards and arteries will allow higher speeds, Greens deputy mayor in charge of transports David Belliard told AFP.
The point is to reduce the space taken by cars, which involves lowering their speeds, he said, making streets safer cyclists and pedestrians.
The move comes as Hidalgo pushes ahead with plans to remove 60,000 of the city's roughly 140,000 street-level parking spaces.
Motorcycles and scooters, which have been allowed to park free, will also have to start paying next year, when hourly parking rates for automobiles will also rise.
And also next year, most vehicles will be banned outright from the Paris Centre district -- the first four arrondissements of the capital including the two islands on the Seine river and the narrow streets of the Marais.
Hidalgo's critics accuse her of anti-car policies that have generated massive traffic headaches for residents as well as for millions of people who live in the suburbs but need cars for working in the capital.
The mayor is also confronting a wave of criticism that the city has become dingier on her watch, via a social media campaign with the hashtag #saccageparis (Trashed Paris).
This week, officials laid out eight measures to spruce up one of the world's most visited cities and Hidalgo has promised to double annual spending on cleaning during her second term to one billion euros ($1.2 billion).