Before/After. Meaux Street, Paris.
Before/After. Meaux Street, Paris.
As part of her climate change plan, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pedestrianizing streets, building bike lanes, and planting trees. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions, reduce traffic noise and make the city more able to resist heat.
She has been very aggressive and upset some car drivers. But the results are starting to pay off.
I fucking LOVE this. What an awesome humanistic policy!
I dream about stuff like this
This is awesome. What did all those people do with their cars?
how many parking spaces are erased? 20?
apparently, in Paris, 1 in 3 households have cars ☞ https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2012694#tableau-TCRD_001_tab1_departements
That's actually more than I expected but it explains the traffic.
Who cares?
Nobody needs a car in Paris
OK then I will bite.
How do workers and tradespeople get to these places? When their refrigerator breaks and they need a repair or a new one, are those delivered on a bike?
When someone buys a mattress, do they just helicopter them in?
When people move into these apartments how does the furniture get moved in? Movers just carry it a full city block?
How do plumbers and electricians bring their equipment in? How do tilers, roofers, people who replace windows get to these places?
How do emergency services get in here? Fire trucks just dont anymore?
I dislike traffic, congestion and poor air quality, but the idea that we don't need roads is just silly. Manage them, dont delete them. This is the folly of the bourgeois.
Just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. Bro, just one more lane. Please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro c’mon just give me one more lane I promise bro, bro bro please! Just need one more lane
"bUT iT's bAd fOr bUsINesSeS"
wHerE Am I goInG tO paRk My cAr
Gorgeous
Absolutely gorgeous. It goes to show how wonderful a space can be if you design it right.
Could argue it's Less street 😁
would look better with flowers
It looks like they're going for natural wildflowers, which means that there will be periods of time where it's basically all just green. What you get in return though is lots of interesting grasses but the image is pretty low resolution so you can't really see all that.
Paris has so many flowers that there are more bees inside Paris than outside Paris.
Although that's also because of the pesticides used outside Paris.
Was that a street or a parking lot? Because I see cars on the far right side, and this dead ends anyway.
That's just a street in Europe, it's what they look like.
On first glance I thought this could have been a two way road with trees in the middle and they closed one way for this pedestrian area.
But it actually was some kind of parking lot/access street. The actual Rue de Meaux continues straight on while what we're looking at is just a 100m long off-branch.
Meow street