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French mayors cause traffic problems in Paris

Friday, 04 September 2009

French mayors cause traffic problems in Paris

Two feuding French mayors have brought traffic chaos to the suburbs of Paris when each of them declared the same road a one-way system, but going the opposite way.

Patrick Balkany, the conservative mayor of Levallois-Perret, had decided that the D909 should be one-way to cut down on heavy traffic through his district, however, Gilles Catoire, the Socialist mayor of Clichy-la-Garenne, claimed that this created a problem in his suburb.

The mayors had road-signs erected but this caused confusion for motorists and the police had to deal with the problem by directing the resulting traffic away from the region.

AFP news agency reported that Clichy's deputy mayor, Alain Fournier, had explained: "What Clichy has done is not a long-term solution, but it is a response to a unilateral decision by the town of Levallois."

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