Paris' Green Revolution: Cars Out, Bikes In? #greencity #15minutecity #france

Think about how much more crowded those streets would be if every one of those bicycles was a car instead. If you're a car driver then you should be glad that all these people are riding bicycles and that the city is making it easy for them.

just a reminder: cities aren't loud, cars are loud

When people are used to cars being privileged, equality feels like oppression.

Car people that claim, pedestrians have never been that unsafe than now because of all the bicycles are funny to me. It is like a real time satire.

I’m a Parisian and I’m not a fanatic; and I don’t have a car because i don’t need one. Suburbans can drive their vehicles to the closest metro station then use public transports just like us. Delivery vehicles, taxis and emergency vehicles should be the only ones in our streets

I’m a car enthusiast. But I’m loving how European cities are making walking and public transportation much easier. Bravo Paris!

Googled Eric du Camont. Turns out that he is the French equivalent of Nick Freeman. A person whose income literally depends upon people having car crashes and needing representation. Fewer cars, fewer jobs for criminal defence lawyers who specialise in traffic law. He's not biased at all, I'm sure...

It's simple geometry for me. Cars are spatially inefficient for dense urban environments.

So basically a bunch of people who don't live in a city want to dictate what people who do live in the city are allowed to do?

How dare anyone propose a non-fossil-fuel-reliant mode of transport that doesn't clog up streets and pollute the air.

Driving through central Paris is nuts. It's stressful and inconvenient. Why anybody would insist on keeping car traffic in central Paris is beyond me. Metro and buses take you everywhere and I refuse to believe that all these drivers are disabled or old people who have no other choice.

I live in the suburbs of Paris, the arguments opposed to Paris' policy are completely overblown. There are 13 RER lines and commuter train lines that extend more than 50km from the center of the city, allowing many workers to get inside Paris much quicker than by car. Some people are even able to commute by train, daily, from outside the Paris region. You don't need a car to work or shop in Paris, there are jobs and shops outside of Paris too, and Paris can't be blamed for the region's conservative government's lack of political will to offer car-free mobility outside of Paris. I've been living 50km away from Paris, I didn't have a bus to take me to the RER on Sundays, and that was the region's fault, not Paris'.

Paris has changed so much over the decades for the better. It used to be a bleak city with no greenery, car exhaust and trash filling the air. It is far more greener and cleaner than I have ever seen. Not everything is perfect, but it has improved weather those who drive around by car like it or not.

5:10 No you don't. Drive your motorcycle to a suburbian transit hub and take the metro to the center.

Cities don't hate cars, cyclists don't hate cars. Geometry hates cars. As a mode of transportation, it is the most inefficient one spatially as it takes up too much space per person. No amount of street space can fix that

NYC needs to take notes and copy this.

As an American watching this, this is awesome, I hope they continue. When Americans started building suburbs and driving into cites it ruined our cities, they bulldozed buildings for parking lots and our streets got very wide, that is why you don't see many people walking in America. We are completely dependent on our cars.The average U.S. driver spends 97 hours in traffic a year, this is why I am moving to Europe, I don't want to spend my life in traffic.

This is great! Montreal is doing something similar too! We don't need all these cars in the city!

Car drivers, who have for most of the past century been the recipients of ridiculous levels of subsidy to support their driving habit, see it as tyranny to lose even a fraction of that subsidy, and face the need to actually pay for the infrastructure and the space they use. I'm facing the same tension in my own city, and car drivers here don't like it one bit either.

Why are people outside of Paris so entitled by how Paris govern themselves.. they blamed parisian when they do not have access to public transport while they are the one voting for wrong politicians