The establishment of this ZTL was to take place "early 2024", after a first postponement of a year and a half decided in 2022, had announced the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo in March, in an interview with AFP, ensuring "(hold) the deadlines", against the background of negotiation with the prefecture of police which had initially expressed "strong reservations".
At a press conference on Monday on the assessment of the work one year before the Games, the first deputy of the city, Emmanuel Grégoire, explained that the mayor and the prefect of police had "agreed in terms of timetable for the post-Olympic implementation of the ZTL".
By telephone, the office of Emmanuel Grégoire said that are considered "several hypotheses", including that of a short-term postponement that is not yet decided.
Early 2024 remains "a goal," he said.
The town hall aims to integrate into the ZTL, whose goal is to drastically reduce the place of the car in the hypercenter of the capital, the first four arrondissements, plus the parts of the V, VI and VII located between the boulevard Saint-Germain and the Seine via the prohibition of so-called transit traffic, which according to it represents 50% of current traffic.
The police headquarters is located in the heart of this perimeter, on the Ile de la Cité. At the beginning of June, at the Paris Council, the representative of the Prefecture of Police had evoked her "disagreement" on the timetable to establish the ZTL in early 2024, just before the Olympics.
The sub-prefect Elise Lavielle, chief of staff of Laurent Nuñez, had immediately resumed, evoking his "cautious position on the calendar set up before the Olympic Games".
At the beginning of September, the EELV deputy for mobility David Belliard had said that there would be "no new postponement: the ZTL will be done before the Olympics". But its perimeter "will depend in part on the police headquarters," he acknowledged.
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