Paris's Avenue des Champs-Élysées To Get A Green Makeover
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The Champs-Élysées is an iconic Paris landmark. It connects the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde. The 1.2-mile (1.9km) tree-lined avenue was once a popular place for locals to walk and picnic. However, it is now a tourist hotspot, filled with expensive cafes and designer shops.
The "most beautiful avenue in the world" has also fallen into disrepair. The pavements are cracked and the once-lush trees are struggling to survive. The pollution from the 64,000 cars that pass through daily, surpasses that of Paris's busiest highways.
But if Paris's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has her way, Champs-Élysées will soon be restored to its former glory. Her ambitious $250 million initiative aims to transform the iconic street into "a beautiful garden." The project's first goal is to bring down the pollution by reducing the avenue's eight car lanes to just four. They will be replaced with trees and bike lanes. From 2030, only electric vehicles will be allowed on the Champs-Élysées.
The Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe will also be redesigned. Both areas will be closed off to cars and lined with trees and wide pedestrian streets. The transformation of the Place de la Concorde — the city's largest public square — will be completed in time for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. The rest of the project will be done by 2030.
Resources: Fastcompany.com, CNN.com, Sortiparis.com
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tvbrawlstarsalmost 2 yearsThey need to make it green
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tristealmost 2 yearsWow! That is an amazing idea! In the long run, that will do so much for our planet!
sebsebk18almost 2 yearsthis is great!!
diva-b3th4nyalmost 2 yearsI think give the world most beautiful avenue a €250 million makeover in beauty and environmental causes too will have a good impact on the planet. The fact that only electric cars will be able to drive on the roads by 2030 will be a big improvement on pollution and reducing the lanes from eight lanes to four lanes will definitely help decrease the pollution in the air and help grow the plants and make it a flower bed beauty again. I like the idea of them starting now and planned it out so it would be completed for the Summer Olympics 2024. I think changing the design and making it a cleaner place will definitely make it a much better place to go instead of it being really noisy and smell horrible it’ll be a really lovely place to visit. I love the idea of making it a more environmentally friendly place just like how we won’t the world to be! #makingtheworldabetterplace #paris #streets #€250million #betterforourplanet #greenmakeover #summerolympics #2024 #2030 #reducingpollution~beth
wolfgangkozuch1almost 2 yearsElectric cars are not what they seem, They require huge amounts of cobalt, nickel, and lithium, way more than you think. It's a waste of resources and these machines producing lots of gasses leave GIGANTIC craters in the ground just to make ONE battery that lasts for 10-20 years. And millions of electric cars are sold throughout the world. It may seem like a green product, but it's like putting lipstick on a pig.
godmodealmost 2 yearsThis is so cool
wilsocr30almost 2 yearsI did a report on Paris france and got a 100 on it. And also that will be really cool to turn a highway into a garden for people.
ccas3530almost 2 yearscool??
summer_beachalmost 2 yearsCool! It looks really pretty!
yukevin0628almost 2 yearscool