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French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris

www.forbes.com French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris

Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.

French Revolution: Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris

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Cycling around Paris 15 years ago was basically only acceptable if you had a deathwish. It's awesome that they made such huge improvements!
- Almost as if it's possible to improve even the largest cities' infrastructure to be more human friendly. Almost as if there's no reason bad urban design should remain bad forever. Huh, who knew...
  
  A lot cheaper than building nearly any other infrastructure.
  
  I haven't run the numbers but I'd venture a guess that it's even cheaper than maintaining the car bearing roads.
Holy shit, that's awesome!

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