“I was ahead of my time” | EUROtoday

CFive years after turning Bordeaux city corridor into the inexperienced, Pierre Hurmic loudly claims his outcomes. The lawyer who grew to become mayor in 2020 says he’s proud to have established a Bordeaux-style ecology: native, humanist, uninhibited. There isn’t any query for him of imitating Paris or Lyon: he needs a “Girondine” ecology, ingenious and pragmatic.

Under his management, town has modified its face: a pedestrian sector prolonged by 50%, greater than 55,000 timber planted. “I was not a concrete mayor, I accept that,” he insists. Result: a greener metropolis, but in addition extra divided. Because if the individuals of Bordeaux breathe higher, they often moan extra. Between its supporters who hail a “peaceful” metropolis and its detractors who denounce chaotic site visitors, poor safety and…