Soon 70 km / h on the Paris ring road ?

During a meeting of the Paris council, the deputy mayor in charge of the environment, Rene Dutrey, declared that the government would have welcomed "favorably" the plan to lower the speed on the Paris ring road from 80 to 70 km / h. This would be the second decrease in maximum speed on the ring road, after …

During a meeting of the Paris council, the deputy mayor in charge of the environment, Rene Dutrey, declared that the government would have welcomed "favorably" the plan to lower the speed on the Paris ring road from 80 to 70 km / h. This would be the second reduction in maximum speed on the ring road, after the passage from 90 to 80 km / h in 1993.

Rejected several times by the police headquarters during the previous five-year term, this request from the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, would have this time received the full attention of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

And why not 30 km / h, with speed bumps every 10 meters ?

"I can tell you that it is off to a good start," even predicts Rene Dutrey, who assures us that lowering the speed is a measure which "costs little economically and has high environmental efficiency". Not to mention of course its budgetary efficiency thanks to the automatic radars located on the periphery. !

Unsurprisingly, Denis Baupin also finds that the passage to 70 km / h would be "triply beneficial" because it would result in "less noise, less pollution and less traffic jams". According to the deputy Europe Ecology Les Verts (EELV) from Paris, this request sent to the government could lead to "discussions in the coming months". For the record, the Greens campaigned last year for a lowering of the speed to 50 km / h on the periphery between midnight and 6 a.m., but the police headquarters had not followed up … for the moment !

"Useless and inefficient"

For its part, the Automobile Club Association (ACA) considers this measure "unnecessary and ineffective" and recalls that "the average speed on the device is already 75 to 78 km / h". The ACA also notes that it will be complicated to drive in 5th or 6th gear in a car at only 70 km / h, which will cause more downshifts, and therefore more pollution and noise pollution..

Let us point out for all practical purposes to the elected MNC readers – they will recognize themselves! – that on a motorcycle the same problem will arise, especially on certain models equipped with very long gear ratios. Finally, let us remind our readers living in the provinces that the ring road is a very wide urban motorway (up to four lanes in each direction!) Circling Paris on which it is possible to drive in complete safety … when it is not. is not bottled. That is to say almost never !

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