Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.
The referendum will eliminate 10,000 more parking spots in Paris, adding to the 10,000 removed since 2020. The city's two million residents will be consulted on which streets will become pedestrian areas.
Paris town hall data shows car traffic in the city has more than halved since the Socialists took power in the capital at the turn of the century.
Holy, Paris is based
This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.
Banning e-scooters is dumb because they replace cars, but the triple parking charges for large SUVs is amazing
The 500 additional streets to be pedestrianised will bring the total number of these so-called "green lungs" to nearly 700, just over one-tenth of the capital's streets.
So based.
the e-scooters are not banned, the free sharing one are.
The problem is that the company doing free sharing did not penalized user enough for parking their e-scooters improperly (in the middle of the sidewalk).
Because of the uncivility of the users, they banned it.Yep, banning e-scooters is a stupid idea that no one has been able to explain properly to me.
They only ever talk about "annoying kids go too fast where they shouldn't" without realising ANNOYING KIDS WILL ANNOY YOU NO MATTER WHAT.
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??
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.
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!