Overview
- Grégoire outlined the program Monday and set a vote-ready plan for next week’s Conseil de Paris, with a citizen convention on out-of-school safety opening May 18.
- City crews will tackle a mapped list of 1,000 degraded spots such as busy station areas and tourist hubs, with more power for arrondissement mayors and tighter coordination of roadworks to limit noise and disruption.
- Pedestrian safety moves include ending bike lanes marked on sidewalks, a zero-death target, a new municipal police brigade focused on motor-vehicle violence, and sharp cuts to tourist coach traffic inside Paris.
- The aesthetic push, framed as a “right to beauty,” targets facades, pavements and historic street furniture, adds 80–87 pedestrian-only neighborhood cores, and accelerates a continuous 25 km Seine promenade, with a design chief expected before summer.
- No new budget line was announced, with spending kept near the existing €3.3–€3.5 billion envelope, and opposition groups saying the package recycles old ideas and risks stalling without dedicated funds.