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.
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.
It is only about the (masses of) shared ones. Which end up everywhere in every orientation, including rivers etc. And those companies simply do not care. People suck because they do not put them back and the companies suck because they let that happen.
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??
I’m honestly jealous.
I live in a very walkable area of Kansas City, but it would be even better if there were fewer streets and more green space instead, but we Americans with our cars and our fat asses would never approve of something like this.
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I have thought about destroying roads every day for years, every time I go outside. Not the whole road, just some key points to prevent through traffic and to eliminate some extra lanes. I see cars parked in the curb lane on both sides of a four lane stroad and I think, if traffic is still moving, those curb lanes could be removed and this could be a two lane road. Anyone know how to make TNT?Removed by mod
@melpomenesclevage One Idea I had was to take a big battery powered drill to make a few holes in the street. Then drive some rebar into the holes. Prepare a large diameter piece of bright colored capped PVC pipe about a meter long filled with wet concrete with a hole in one end for the rebar. Slide the PVC concrete bollard over the rebar and let it dry overnight. With proper planning, less than 5 minutes doing crime on the public road late at night. #FuckCars #Bollards #BikeLanes
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Guillotining the bougeoisie?
Voltaire invented most forms of “woke” in Paris a few hundred years a head of time.
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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.
