PARIS — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo flagged plans to transform it into an “extraordinary garden,” along with the space surrounding the Eiffel Tower, in the not-so-distant future. The city is gearing up to host the 2024 Olympic Games, embarking on a number of projects of urban revival for the event.
The avenue’s lobby group, the Comité Champs-Élysées, welcomed the mayor’s proclamation, and flagged plans to actively be involved in the project, noting it had begun exploring ideas for reviving the strip in 2018. “We think that the Champs-Élysées deserves a big project,” said Jean-Noël Reinhardt, president of the Comité Champs-Élysées, at the group’s presentation of ideas for rejuvenating the avenue.Tens of thousands of cars charge down the avenue each day, generating high levels of pollution.
Proposals presented by the Comité Champs-Élysées in 2019 centered around adding vegetation, widening zones for foot traffic and doing away with the curb, repaving the street and sidewalk in a uniform manner — inspired by Exhibition Road in London.
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