I had a chance to visit Paris recently and I went on a mission to ride every new bike lane the city had built in the past year how many do you think it was five new bike Lanes 10 stop number one is this cobblestone street that half of which has been turned over to cyclist number two number three is number four number five another nice separated bike lane number seven number eight number nine is this a full Lane just for bikes 11 12 number 13 bike lane 14 number 15 16 17 check out 18 number 19 number 20 21 this is number 22 23 project number 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 oops I missed number 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 if this old busy dense City can find this much space for bikes what’s holding your city back
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Corruption?
Corruption holds my city back
Those paris streets are kinda wide which allows to put them. Normally putting bike lanes in european cities is almost impossible.
Hills and rain lol
Hi, how long where those bike lanes?
How many km and is it asphalt? Cobblestone bike lanes aren't very comfortable
I'm in Italy, people who are in charge don't give a damn, that's what holding them back
when politicians serve their constituents instead of themselves!
Eh probably ice and snow
Amsterdam be like: Hold my Heineken.
Corruption
To be fair trafic is now so horrible in Paris that even urgent responders are struggling. As a trottinette user I find comfortable but it does feel weirds to be faster than cars and the good balance as not be found.
Seeing the traffic I would imagine that it is not good for the environment either but I lack the numbers so I don’t want to go to far on that :/
Hey Tom. Do you mind if I ask where you got those prints on your wall from?
Car addiction holds my city up.
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This is amazing. Inspiring
I know what's holding other cities back: Paris local politics is quite unique, in that the mayor of Paris is elected only by the people living in the smallish downtown area inside the 'périphérique' (that's 2M people, vs 10M for the greater urban area, think Manhattan).
Those people overwhelmingly don't have cars. This means that most motorists in Paris are not constituents, and the few downtown Parisians who own a car don't vote for Ms. Hidalgo anyway. Therefore the city council can alienate motorists ad nauseam without facing any political backlash in the polls. The constituents and tourists are happy, the motorists are fuming but don't have a voice in downtown politics.
Not all large cities have this political structure.
A true vision of safety & efficiency… Merci
38 in only one year, wow. And is not like 38 short and slim, unconfortable and unsafe bike lanes that they do with bad planning …. It's 38 usefull bikelanes thats looks mostly safe. Impressive!
What I see is this. We just had the mayor of our reasonably small city here in Northern Arizona come out and make a big deal about opening up this new road called the Japer Expressway. I'm guessing it's around 2 1/2 miles north to south. Made it into a small event complete with venders, the biggest bike shop here, and loads of police for no apparent reason excepting image. The deal was a ribbon cutting and a little speech, followed by some running and cycling on this half mile stretch down and up. Three of us had road bikes, and there were some others too, along with some children riding little bikes. Even one five year old boy. I asked him. I just worked it in to a larger normal road ride. But you see it was a brand spanking new roadway, for car traffic mostly, but there are going to be increasing numbers of cyclists running it too, every day. Yet, you guessed it (probably), in places there might be three feet between the lane limit line and the edge of the pavement. Anyone riding that on a bicycle has to simply be precise and focused constantly, and hope the passing drivers have their shit together. No thought whatsoever to having it be six or seven feet instead of three feet, along with some coloring and signage to make it an official bike lane. They just don't think like that here, even with a couple of auto-bicycle running down deaths in the last six months. Even with little kids riding bikes there on the day of opening.