Making city streets & sidewalks safer & more accessible for humans on foot, in chairs, on self-powered & electrical wheels rather than allowing the dominance of polluting larger vehicles—what will those crazy Frenchies think of next??
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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I'm honestly jealous.
I live in a very walkable area of Kansas City, but it would be even better if there were fewer streets and more green space instead, but we Americans with our cars and our fat asses would never approve of something like this.
Guillotining the bougeoisie?
Voltaire invented most forms of "woke" in Paris a few hundred years a head of time.
10,000 more parking spots in Paris, adding to the 10,000 removed since 2020
Wow!!! My city won't even consider removing a dozen parking spots to make room for a bidirectional bike lane on a street that already has on street parking and two large parking garages within sight... sigh.
Adding back the word "eliminate" would make the quote more understandable.
While I celebrate this as a victory.
4% participation rate in this referendum? We should take a look at the state of politics. That’s a scary low number.
This is not terribly unusual for a municipal referendum vote on Paris. The SUV vote had just under 6% turnout, the electric scooter vote had about 7.5%.
This is a referendum vote. Turnout for major elections is higher.
Yeah, still. 4% is ridiculously low.
Even switzerland which has referendums every couple months never dips below 30%.
I would be concerned at the lack of engagement in local politics.
But I remember people were accusing Hidalgo of underrinforming about these referendums and only making awareness campaigns towards those they thought would vote in her favour.
Paris apartment prices must be prohibitive, but man I would love to live there!