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Originally Posted by Leo the Dog
This is a measure to reduce air pollution? I imagine an unintended consequence would steer commerce out of the central city and into the surrounding suburbs with no net loss of air pollution in metro Paris.
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I doubt it would result in very much going outside the city. It's so expensive in Paris already that most businesses in the center are there only because they need to be. You can't just move restaurants to the suburbs, nor any of the tourist-dependent businesses. Maybe a few furniture stores would move, but they're in the city center because there's demand for them there from the many carless residents.