Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Cuts Parking to Slash Car Use, Stirring Election Debate

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has aggressively reduced parking spaces, causing a major drop in car usage citywide and boosting bicycle lanes sixfold. This transformation in urban mobility underpins a central issue in the upcoming mayoral election, with opponents promising to roll back these changes. Voters will soon decide whether Paris continues its push for sustainable transit or reverts to more car-friendly policies.