Bicyclists, pedestrians, and rollerbladers swarmed the streets of central Paris on Sunday, taking advantage of the city's first ever "day without cars." All private, non-electric cars were banned from Paris' historic city center for seven hours yesterday, as part of a campaign to promote clean transportation. Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced the no-car campaign in March, at the urging of a citizen collective called Paris Sans Voiture (Paris Without Car). The ban covered only four of Paris' 20 arrondissements, in addition to tourist attractions like the Champs Elysée, and environmental groups have criticized the city for not extending it to working-class neighborhoods.
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