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Corona-cycleways: Paris Mayor Wants Residents to 'Forget' What It's Like to Cross City in Cars
News 18Paris’s new Mayor is on bicycling high. Freshly re-elected Anne Hidalgo in a recent interview maintained that she will be keeping her manifesto promise to make residents of the French capital cycle more by increasing the number of lockdown cycleways. In May, Hidalgo, who has campaigned against car use in the capital since entering City Hall in 2014, added a provisional 50 km of additional cycling lanes Paris as she sought to capitalise on the shifting public mood. In a recent interview with French newspaper Le Parisien, Hidalgo said, “We must forget the crossing of Paris from east to west by car,” adding that the city needed to “evolve”. The mayor added that she had given the nod to seven new temporary cycleways while also promising a permanent, protected cycleway enabling commuter to travel long distances in the city.
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