Less than a month after the COP21, Paris seems to take another turn, more eco-aware, in the beginning of this year 2016. Indeed, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced that the most beautiful avenue of the world will become pedestrian once a month, from April 3^rd next. This initiative fits into the logical outcome of the first car free day, organised on September 27^th 2015 in several Parisian boroughs, as the Champs-Élysées one. The pedestrians could thus freely move on the avenue, with family, for a walk or for some window-shopping!

© Paris Tourist Office - Photographer: Bertrand Desprez - Artist: VU Agency- Artist: Gad Weil – La Fonderie

More and more ecological initiatives in Paris
Only recently, the Mairie de Paris multiplies the committed actions as the Bluetram, an ecological tramway working without rails or catenaries, autonomous on two kilometers, which crisscrosses the Champs-Élysées until January 30^th 2016. The city of Paris also decided to restrict around ten districts of the capital to 18 miles, in January 2016. The Objectif Ville 30 among others aims for reach 50% of the town to 18 miles at the end of 2016. The purpose of all these ecological initiatives is to make the town greener, where cars will be less present.

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Avenue des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris
France
Metro: Charles de Gaulle-Etoile (lines 1, 2, 6 and RER A), George V (line 1), Franklin D. Roosevelt (lines 1 and 9), or Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau (lines 1 and 13).

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