How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

zemike

As time goes by, people will feel like these changes are more and more what makes Paris great. It will be similar to how progress happened for Amsterdam and other cities. A slow conscious fight against car centric infrastructure, it’s not magic, it’s slow steady progress.

secretsatan

I’m all for this. The more cars removed, the more pleasant a city becomes. While i don’t live in a car free city, i don’t own or need a car, when i do, i’m a member of a car share and can just pickup a car from my local supermarket, that i can walk to. I live in a very hilly city, while i walk a lot, i know every lift, escalator and sneaky bus or metro to get me up a hill, it’s no joke here, i used to walk 20min to my job, that had a 200m height difference, but there are paths everywhere. And the city is working more on greenspaces, little urban oasis’s with a fountain or some trees to provide places to cool down as every year gets hotter

ChrisArchitect

Related: Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466697

throw-the-towel

I just wish somebody would teach the damn cyclists to stop at red lights. As of now, they seem absolutely incapable of doing this, and charge ahead at full speed regardless. It's a miracle there's not more injuries.