Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
I get it’s a joke, but people who live in Paris proper have some of the lowest car ownership rate, and it’s been diminishing still: 46% in 1990 to 34% in 2019, as opposed to more than 80% for the whole country
Once your car has been burned down for the third time, you start to consider whether a bike might just be a more cost-effective alternative.
I get it’s a joke, but people who live in Paris proper have some of the lowest car ownership rate, and it’s been diminishing still: 46% in 1990 to 34% in 2019, as opposed to more than 80% for the whole country
I chuckled in French
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