Paris limits vehicle use to fight pollution

Paris announced license-plate-based driving restrictions for a third day in a row on Wednesday and planned to expand a ban on old cars, as the French capital experienced its worst air pollution in a decade.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Paris banned cars from the road based on whether their license plates ended with odd or even numbers. It will ban half of all traffic again on Thursday.

The air quality index in Paris from Tuesday to Thursday was between 130 and 150.