Die Fahrradnutzung in Paris übersteigt mittlerweile die Autonutzung

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1. So many great things about Paris!

2. It’s because using a car is actually really difficult in such a city. Tight spaces and slow speeds make them relatively inefficient.

   I wish every city discouraged car use as such. Fantastic city.

   Cars are really cool and I’m a gearhead but they belong on back roads or on the track. Using them to just sit in traffic or to die slowly in a commute as we do in the states makes me long for Europe.

3. As someone who lives in a large city with relatively poor public transportation and a vast road infrastructure riddled with vanity trucks and motor cycles in the summer, I long for the day when bikes become mainstream here. I travelled to Copenhagen in 2021 and it was so cool walking the streets in the morning to hear all the cyclists pedalling to work or wherever they were going. The streets had a faint hum of bikes whizzing by, it was calm and peaceful. People were happier and actually looked like they wanted to be wherever it was that they were going.

4. This is why I scroll thank goodness for some good news

5. I miss living in Paris!! I wish cities in the US prioritized public transportation and walkability like Europe does.

6. Sounds like a great argument to increase already skewed city expenditure on roads and motor users to bring this number back to something saner.

   /s

7. Wonderful! Hope this trend picks up in other major cities around the world.

8. Wonder if they’ll see improvement Netherlands saw after it boosted bike friendly roads

   > The trend away from the bicycle and towards motorised transport only began to decrease in the 1970s when Dutch people took to the streets to protest against the high number of child deaths on the roads: in some years over 500 children were killed in collisions with motor vehicles.[10] This protest movement, initiated by Maartje van Putten (later an MEP),[11][12] was known as the Stop de Kindermoord (“Stop the Child Murder”).[10] [13] The success of this movement—along with other factors, such as the oil shortages of 1973–74[14] and the publication of the CROW Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic—turned government policy around. The country began to restrict urban motor vehicle use and direct its focus on growth towards other forms of transport, with the bicycle perceived as critical in making streets safer and towns and cities more people-friendly and livable.

9. I am in Paris right now. No it doesn’t.

10. There are still waaaaaaaaaaasy too many cars in Paris though.

11. Minus some nasty cobble stone bits, Paris is amazing to ride a bike in. I miss it very much!

12. Have you BEEN in a car in Paris? May as well walk

13. Yet urinating in the streets still slightly exceeds using a toilet

14. Quality bicycle infrastructure and car-free zones make any city more livable. Cars and trucks take up too much space and are horribly inefficient and expensive.