More, again and again. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is constantly promotion projects to add more trees and plants in Paris, with increasingly ambitious objectives. After pedestrians and adding vegetation to 300 streets in the capital, the mayor’s office wants more than duplicating the bets. On Sunday, March 23, the Parisians voted for the creation of 500 new “garden roads”, through a vote of citizens. “
In the heart of this proactive policy, a particular number is the issue of debate and is the regularity condemned by the opposition, which sees it as nothing more than a striking communications instrument: 170,000. That is the number of trees that the city of Paris promised to plant between 2020 and 2026, according to its “trees plan” adopted in 2021. More than eight times the 20,000 planned in the previous mandate. It is enough to turn the head.
“We should fetish this goal,” said Christophe Najdovski, Vicealcalde in charge of the green spaces. Moreover, did not hide the fact that the threshold was chosen for symbolic reasons, in line with the number of newborns expected in Paris in the next six years, “with the idea of planting a tree for each birth.”
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