Paris Forces Cars Off the Roads

Paris, in an effort to ease dangerous pollution levels, is allowing only cars with license plates that end in odd numbers on the road Monday. Vehicles with even license plate numbers are designated to be the only ones on the road Tuesday, if the pollution levels remain high after Monday. Seven-hundred police have been deployed across Paris and 22 surrounding areas of the French capital to enforce the measure. Electric and hybrid cars are exempted from the ban, as well as any vehicle...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - lundi 17 mars 2014