Too fast, too furious: Paris speed limit crashes into right-wing opposition

PARIS — France’s new transport minister hadn’t even been on the job for a week when he sat down with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in a last-ditch effort to get her to reconsider a controversial policy: slowing the speed limit on the capital’s main ring road.
The move, which would reduce the limit to a sluggish 50 kilometers per hour, is grounded in an effort to improve air quality in the heavily polluted French capital and reduce noise pollution around the highway, where lower-income families tend to live.
But it forces drivers into respecting a maximum speed well below that applied to drivers on similar ring roads in other major European cities.
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