Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris has announced that the Avenue des Champs-Élysées will be closed to cars on one Sunday each month from April 2016 to open the whole road to pedestrians!

Avenue Champs-Élysées – 27 Sep 2015

This follows on from an experiment in September 2015 creating a traffic-free day in Paris – an initiative from the Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo – Journée sans voiture will make the French capital “a pedestrian and bicycle paradise” for one day – see www.paris.fr