2024-09-17 05:00:00
LThe saga of low speed on the Paris ring road will probably come to an end. While the Mayor of Paris, pumped up by the Olympic Games, is increasing initiatives to maintain his reformed image, a simple reminder of the law can put his plan to go to 50 km / h on the Paris loop on the shelf. And it is a lawyer who specializes in traffic law, Me Remy Josseaume, who remembers the legal letter by the League for the Safety of Drivers and on the Sud Radio antenna in the program. It’s a parle car.
According to him, there is no shadow of a doubt, the Mayor of Paris simply does not have the right to reduce the speed limit on the ring road “only” from 70 to 50 km / h, simply because he decided to. Maître Josseaume explained: “First of all, law 2017-1175 [du Code général des collectivités territoriales] said that the traffic and the parking police must be in accordance with the regulations adopted by the Police Department for the road developments planned by the Paris region, so the Mayor cannot, a priori, do what he wants as he wants . »
Power of the Prime Minister
In other words, it will be up to Michel Barnier to sign the reform order presented by the Ministry of the Interior to follow the direction of Mrs. Hidalgo. We cannot say that this leads to Matignon where there are other, urgent issues to be addressed. To support the decision, it will also be necessary to justify that the measure affects the desired goal: to significantly reduce the nuisances for the residents of Boulevard Paris. And this is far from proven.
The city can also decide by order to increase the speed to 50 km / h on October 1, the decision will be invalid because it is illegal. And the radars that are there will, therefore, not adjust down, allowing users to go as high as 70. Which must be done in the middle of the night, the average daytime speed is half as low. Mrs. Hidalgo will stick with the solution suggested by the humorist Alphonse Allais who said in the 19th century: “We should build cities in the countryside, the air is cleaner there. »
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