The City of Paris completes its project for a dedicated carpool lane on the ring road

By approving an agreement with the Solideo (Delivery company for Olympic works) and Paris 2024 (the organizing committee) on the financing of traffic simulations for the "Olympic lanes", reserved for athletes, media, officials, emergency services and forces order during the Games, the town hall reaffirms that the reserved lane on the ring road and its equipment (fitness cameras, sensors, signage) "will be kept in order to allow the creation of a lane reserved for carpooling and other virtuous modes" .

But while the Olympic route, financed by the Solideo, concerns only three quarters (west, north and east) of the ring road, the city council has adopted a wish from the environmental group asking to "complete the legacy" by integrating into the future carpooling lane the southern section, between the gates of Versailles and Bercy, "in order to create a dedicated lane on the entire Paris ring road".

"We voted on the principle of making the entire ring road", summed up the deputy (EELV) for the transformation of public space, David Belliard, estimating the municipal budget at 6 or 7 million euros to "finance the closure of this dedicated channel ".

The list of these "other virtuous modes" is "in the course of preparation within the framework of the Peripheral workshops", recalls the town hall. On Wednesday, the first deputy (PS) Emmanuel Grégoire had mentioned "public transport" and "electric vehicles".

The majority of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, PS presidential candidate, takes this decision in principle while Valérie Pécresse, LR president of the Ile-de-France region and another contender for the Elysee, launched an online consultation on Wednesday on this project, to which she is fiercely opposed.

"For or against the removal of a lane for all of the ring road?" Asks the region, in a vote open until the end of November "to all people using it or not".