Paris to invest €200 million in cycling infrastructure by 2032
The French capital plans to spend €200 million on expanding its cycle path network and rebuilding dangerous junctions. The aim is to make cycling safer as bike traffic in the city keeps growing.
Paris, the capital of France, plans to invest €200 million by 2032 in expanding its cycling network and redesigning dangerous junctions to make them safer. Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire presented the new cycling infrastructure plan on Wednesday. It aims to create safe, continuous routes across the city as the number of cyclists keeps rising. Deputy mayor Dan Lert also commented on it on Instagram.
What the plan includes
The plan calls for building another 140 kilometres of cycle paths and converting 220 kilometres of one-way streets so that cyclists can ride in both directions. A total of 420 junctions will be rebuilt to improve safety. The city also intends to assign more police officers to traffic supervision, to ensure that rules protecting cyclists and pedestrians are observed.
The current situation
Paris has spent many years reshaping its streets to give pedestrians and cyclists more space. The city now has 454 kilometres of cycle paths, while the entire network, including lanes marked on roads, runs for roughly 1,600 kilometres.
Cycling traffic has risen by 47% since 2020. According to city data, one in ten residents now cycles to work, compared with 4.8% in 2017. On one busy street in central Paris, 6.1 million cyclists were counted over a year.
Accident figures
About half of all traffic accidents in which cyclists are hurt in Paris involve cars. In 2024, slightly more than 1,000 cyclists were injured in road accidents, 67 of them seriously. Two cyclists died.
