The ban is estimated to cover about 10 percent of cars currently registered in Paris, or roughly 30,000 vehicles. ( Nelson Minar /Flickr)In an effort to curb pollution that some days makes the city as smoggy as Beijing, Paris began on Friday to ban cars built before 1997 from coming within city limits. On high-pollution days, Paris has previously made public transit and residential parking free to get people out of their cars, and it has lowered speed limits. Last March, the city temporarily allowed only half of cars — those with even-numbered license plates — on the road for a day. And it marks one of the most drastic attempts to restrict cars in a European city.

Source: Washington Post July 02, 2016 12:03 UTC