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Paris mayor clobbers drivers with lower speed limit and tripled parking fees

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Anne Hidalgo’s cut to the speed limit, from 70 to 50 kph, will be progressively introduced across the Boulevard Périphérique until Oct 10 .

She insists it will improve air quality by reducing stop and go’ driving, in which vehicles speed up and slow down repeatedly.

The move has sparked disapproval from the opposition Right and the French government .

Ms Hidalgo received only 1.7 per cent of the vote when she ran for president in 2022 .

However, she claimed plaudits when the Paris Olympic Games were widely hailed as a triumph.

She took aim at her detractors in an expletive-laden diatribe, saying in English : F--- reactionaries, f--- the extreme right'.

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