Wie Paris Autos gegen Fahrräder tauschte – und seine Straßen veränderte
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/how-paris-swapped-cars-for-bikes-and-remade-its-streets
Von JohnHammond94
Wie Paris Autos gegen Fahrräder tauschte – und seine Straßen veränderte
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/how-paris-swapped-cars-for-bikes-and-remade-its-streets
Von JohnHammond94
13 Kommentare
It’s really impressive what they did.
Used to be a right wing car/motorcycle guy and even though I pestered at the time, I admit that the left did the right thing.
Paris is safer, easy to transit, air is much cleaner. I remember Paris being gridlocked all the time despite all the roads being open to cars. When they closed the roads one by one it was hard but it just needed to be done.
Transport prices are way too high though.
I mean good for them, but lets not pretend we have not done this like 30 years ago.
Bikes are cool and all, but when you have 3+ small children, there is no way to transport them and all the stuff you need on a bike.
I didn’t know they cleared river banks from cars, that’s alone seems to be my best desire. Almost every city I lived are always building roads along the rivers, which is so stupid to be honest, like drivers ever cared about their surrounding
I thought we were switching to EVs, not eliminating all vehicles?
Why does it have to be so without compromises? A lot of people like cars and wants to use them. Why does it have to be this or this? Cities can be build with all people needs and wishes in mind.
Check Kuala Lumpur. Seven million people out there. No traffic jams. Lots of green.
https://streamable.com/15j3ut
You guys travel above ground??
Just go to Anne Hidalgo and Sophia Chikirou’s Instagram to see replies coping and seething over being unable to drive their pickup trucks to the center of the city.
Good for Paris! I’m 50+ and any time I visit a European city, I try to find a rental bike and give it a shot (these you can unlock from your phone and leave at the destination are really practical – make sure to follow the parking rules ofc). Can recommend it, you see a lot more and get a feel for the districts, and in many cases gets you to where you’re going fast enough. Used to be a car guy, but this is more fun and better for the old cardiovasculair system. PS. Pack a helmet.
What a nice article about nothing i particular.
I thought it was only during the Tour de France.
Poor people in developing countries have to rely on lowcost means of transportation, nothing new under the Sun, really.