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Paris announces deconfinement plan for gradual recovery

How to safely deconfigure one of the most densely populated cities, with no less than 21,000 inhabitants per km2 ? The challenge is considerable in Paris, in a region entirely situated in the red epidemic zone. The team of mayor PS Anne Hidalgo presented Tuesday, May 5 the first measures envisaged for a gradual resumption of life in the capital.

The lifting of containment will first be accompanied by the reopening of large public spaces currently closed: the Esplanade des Invalides, the Champ-de-Mars, the bank tracks on both banks of the Seine, the Bois de Vincennes and the Boulogne . The town hall calling everyone’s responsibility to avoid the concentrations of people and practices that could cause the epidemic to rebound. “

15% of students welcomed from May 14

Another strong expectation to wake up the city: the opening of 230 nurseries and schools. Back to school will be on May 14 for nursery and primary, after three days of pre-entry for teachers, in completely disinfected establishments. The reception will be very progressive , underlines Patrick Bloche, assistant in charge of Education.

It will first concern children of large kindergarten, CP and CM2 section. Those of health personnel or actors essential to the economic recovery (teachers, RATP employees, etc.) will be given priority, in the same way as children in fragile situations. This should represent at the start 15% of schoolchildren, or 20,000 out of a total of 130,000 in the capital.

2,000 relay parking spaces

The transport component is another major issue for the town hall, which invites employees to continue their teleworking activity. Ensure compliance with security measures in the event of another headache in the subways, buses, RER or trains… which normally transport around five million passengers every day in the Ile-de-France region. Out of the question, however, to leave Paris invaded by vehicles, has already warned Anne Hidalgo. We are going to double the number of parking spaces around the City, or 2,000 in total. And maybe even 3,000 if part of the Porte de Versailles exhibition center can be opened.

50 km of additional cycle lanes

At the same time, temporary cycle paths will be created along the busiest metro lines (1, 4 and 13). And 50 km of lanes usually reserved for cars will be devoted to bicycles: for example emblematic portions like rue de Rivoli, boulevard Saint-Michel, avenue du Général-Leclerc, the tunnel de l’Etoile, Porte Maillot…

It is important , notes Christophe Najdovski, assistant in charge of Transport. He explains that line 13 of the metro (North-South) counts 540,000 travelers every day. If 10% of them decide to take their car, this would generate additional traffic for 54,000 cars … the equivalent of an urban highway. So clearly this hypothesis is neither desirable nor sustainable.

Thirty new pedestrian streets

Finally, in a city where public space sometimes makes it difficult to respect physical distance, the surroundings of stations and poles such as Les Halles will be pedestrianized. As well as thirty new streets, especially around schools, but also shopping areas like the famous rue Mouffetard (5e arrondissement), or that of Faubourg Saint-Denis (10e borough).

So many developments to be reversible or changeable . But if they are relevant, they may not be removed later, warns the mayor.

Hydroalcoholic gel and masks

The City will also install, starting next week, some
2,000 distribution points of hydroalcoholic gel, to bus shelters and sanisettes. Soap will also be made available near water points in parks and gardens when they reopen.

There remain the masks, a distribution of which has been announced several times by the municipality. 500,000 in fabric will be offered this week to those over 70 and distributed by district town halls, she reiterated on Tuesday, May 5. Others will arrive from May 7 in pharmacies for the some two million Parisians, who will need an official document on the city’s website to collect them for free.

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