Piétons - activities

Pedestrian Champs-Elysées: car-free day on the famous avenue on Sunday May 5, 2024

The Champs-Elysées are reserved for pedestrians one Sunday a month. An opportunity to discover the most beautiful avenue in the world in a different way, and to take a selfie in front of the Arc de Triomphe without a car to spoil the picture. This Sunday, May 5, 2024, the Champs Elysées will be pedestrianized all day long!

Paris 2024: half of the Place de la Concorde will no longer be accessible by car after the Games

After the 2024 Olympics, half of the Place de la Concorde will no longer be accessible to motorists. The space will be redeveloped as a promenade, just like the Trocadero and the Champ-de-Mars.

Paris 2024: a car-free capital for six weeks during the Olympic Games?

The Olympic Games are shaping up to be a difficult time for Parisians' mobility, with the ring road cut by one lane and crowded public transport. A new proposal also calls for a car-free capital for the duration of the competition.

Is Paris a pleasant city to walk in? Ranking reveals top walkable cities

As it does every year, the Fédération Française de Randonnée (French Hiking Federation), in partnership with the Place aux Piétons collective, unveils its list of towns where it's good to be a pedestrian. Surprise: in the Paris region, many cities are not...

Rue de Rivoli bikeway is now permanent, cars banned

The Rue de Rivoli is entirely closed to cars since lockdown has been lifted in Paris. And this Wednesday September 16, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo confirmed cars will not return on the main road.

Mandatory masks in Paris: the measure ultimately does not apply to cyclists and runners

Facemasks are mandatory in Paris starting Friday August 28, 2020 at 8 a.m. But does the measure also apply to cyclists and runners? After announcing that everybody was to yield to this obligation, excluding “users riding inside motor vehicles”, the police prefecture back-pedaled saying that ultimately cyclists and runners do not have to wear a mask to move around Paris and the inner suburbs of Paris.