Champs-Elysees bans cars once a month to cut Paris smog

Mayor's office says iconic road to be off limits to vehicles on the first Sunday of the month The most famous boulevard in Paris, the Champs-Elysees, will be off-limits to cars on the first Sunday of every month starting in May, Paris city hall has said. The first pedestrian-only day will be 8 May instead of 1 May, a public holiday, when many of the council workers needed to run the scheme will be off work, mayor Anne Hidalgo's office said on Monday.