Medef calls on the City of Paris for extra session on visitors | EUROtoday

A small, ultra-dense capital squeezed into its ring highway however an financial big within the coronary heart of probably the most populous area in France, Paris can’t be ruled with out trying past its strict municipal perimeter, notably on transport points. This is the overall message of the second report from the Paris Economic World Institute (IME Paris), based in August 2025 by Medef and round fifteen skilled organizations, devoted to mobility.

Without calling into query the deserves of municipal insurance policies to cut back automobile use and enhance biking, the IME warns in opposition to the tendency to fall again on the only real wants of Parisian residents, “by placing economic and regional issues in the background”. “Paris is faced with the impossibility of being an island in terms of mobility policy”explains the IME on this examine printed Friday December 5, and considers quite the opposite that the Town Hall “has a particular political and economic responsibility which goes beyond the territory of the City”. Recently, two choices have notably illustrated this: the (nonetheless theoretical) ban on crossing the middle of Paris by automobile and, above all, the decreasing of the velocity to 50 km/h on the ring highway, determined by the Town Hall alone, whereas 80% of customers of this highway don’t dwell within the capital.

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