Paris says tourist buses no longer welcome in city centre
Mayor says decries 'total anarchy' of lumbering hop-on, hop-off double-deckers
02 July 2019 - 17:26
Paris — Paris aims to ban tourist buses from the city centre to spur visitors to walk, cycle or take public transport, tackling complaints about nuisances caused by mass tourism, says the French capital’s deputy mayor.
Emmanuel Gregoire told Le Parisien newspaper that the situation in Paris was not as bad as in tourist-swamped Venice or Barcelona, but Parisians were concerned about the influx of tourist buses...
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