Paris votes for 500 more car-free streets
by editors@theworld.org (Jeremy Siegel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6WBZN)
Parisians have voted to close traffic on hundreds of streets in the city center and open them up to pedestrians, cyclists and new green spaces. The plan is part of Socialist Party Mayor Anne Hidalgo's sweeping effort to transform Paris into the city's most-bikable city. Transportation advocates are celebrating the changes, but tension is growing between cyclists and drivers. The World's transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports.