In the same perspective as its “zero waste strategy” and its new bins for biowaste, the Paris City Hall just unveiled the project of a bidirectional bicycle path on the Rue de Rivoli. In order to reduce pollution and regulate car traffic, this project should emerge by the end of 2017.

A mythical street soon eco-friendly
The Rue de Rivoli is… bustling! It combines many different stores, little shop and large retailers, restaurants and teahouses (Angelina), museums (like Les Arts Décoratifs) and monuments. The traffic is very heavy there, but it is also a street that tourists and Parisians visit a lot to shop and to stroll. Connecting the Place de la Concorde with the Place de la Bastille, it is a mythical street that the Paris City Hall chose to enhance through a green planning policy. The bike path in itself should be a two-way street, from Concorde to Bastille. Giving back a part of the road to cyclists will help to diminish the presence of polluting individual cars, but also to secure bike rides and mostly to make the street attractive again.

© Vue d'artiste de la rue de Rivoli - Céline Orsinger

The green strategy of the City Hall
This way, the city follows its green goal, here aspiring to ease a very busy commercial and urban zone. To lower the air and noise pollution, caused by an important traffic flow which drives daily along it, foreshadowing studies have already been made. Besides the two-way bicycle path, a tram-bus line will be adapted to replace the bus line 72 and the Carrousel du Louvre will be reserved for pedestrians. So, Paris, future green city? Come check it at the end of 2017 to find out.

For further information, please visit the website of Paris City Hall.

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