PREVIEW: A Talk with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Back in September, Sarah moderated a conversation with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo as part of Climate Week events in New York City. The event was presented by the Clean Cities Campaign and Respire, a Paris-based nonprofit that focuses on improving air quality. We talked about her work removing cars from the city, reducing air pollution, and cleaning up the Seine.
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| 0:00.0 | What you were about to hear is a sample from a Patreon bonus episode in which I talked with Paris Mayor An |
| 0:16.0 | Idalgo about her people-friendly transformation of the city at a Climate Week event in New York City. |
| 0:22.9 | To hear the whole thing, |
| 0:24.3 | along with dozens of past bonus episodes |
| 0:26.6 | and other good stuff, |
| 0:28.6 | you can become a Patreon supporter |
| 0:30.5 | by visiting patreon.com |
| 0:33.2 | slash the war on cars pod. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you for your very kind word. |
| 0:39.6 | And I'm, yes, I'm grateful for what you said. |
| 0:45.5 | But I think maybe two things. |
| 0:49.3 | One is about diesel. |
| 0:51.7 | When I start as mayor, one of the bigger industrial lobbyists in the world, |
| 1:00.6 | came to my office and said to me, |
| 1:03.1 | you have to change your message about banning the diesel. |
| 1:07.4 | Because if you don't, we will fight against you, |
| 1:11.6 | we will demonstrate that you're a very bad mayor |
| 1:15.6 | and you will be responsible of the unemployment |
| 1:20.6 | in not just in France but in Europe. |
| 1:24.6 | And I say to him, wow, you're so powerful. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm scared. |
| 1:31.5 | But anyway, I'm mayor, and I want to be on the right side of this story. |
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