Paris without cars would be incredible. Paris with cars is still terrific, but it could be terrific-er. Good on her.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Cars ruin cities, Paris has many beautiful areas which would only be enhanced by this.
Common France, W.
I want the same for my city and so does my Alderman.
Next year is a mayoral election year, so all this feels like political posturing to me. I don't doubt that the "diesel lobby" wasn't pleased with her changes, but the way she tells it smells like victimization. Also having a car-less approach to running a city is not exactly controversial in the year of our lord 2025. There are a lot of cities that pioneered car-less city design before she got into office ( altough in her defense, this kind of change may be harder to implement in extra large metropolitan areas like Paris ). Oh, and another thing: she's been in office 11 years and traffic-wise the city hasn't changed much outside the central touristy areas. You'd think she could've done a lot more in that kind of time. I go through the city every now and then and I feel the only thing that changed is the growing number of trikes and motorcycles on the periferiques. Maybe someone from Paris can chime in on her actual accomplishments?
Also having a car-less approach to running a city is not exactly controversial in the year of our lord 2025.
Maybe in Europe, but in North America that'd be controversial. In some parts of the United States, that would be seen as treasonous. I wish I was kidding.
I went for an event in Paris a couple of years ago that was held on an annual day they had where they didn't allow any pedestrian traffic into the centre core. It was an amazing experience only having to share the road with buses and taxis.
People don't consider the tourism money involved in these actions. There were over 300 people in our group from outside of the area, just for a single day event for a longboard community. Great job by the mayor to hold strong on these actions.
I went for an event in Paris a couple of years ago that was held on an annual day they had where they didn't allow any pedestrian traffic into the centre core.
Did you mean that private cars were disallowed here?
It sounds a bit dystopian to ban pedestrians, but the context makes it seem like pedestrians were allowed and private cars were not.
Yeah, private cars. Sorry, migraine the past couple days and sometimes my words don't come out the way they worked in my head hahaha.
Airparif, an independent group that tracks air quality for France’s capital region, said this week that levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) have decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 50 percent. It attributed this to “regulations and public policies,” including steps to limit traffic and ban the most polluting vehicles.
This would make for such a pleasant city. My downtown core is purely car-centric and it's terrible to visit. Everything smells like exhaust, people are honking and yelling at each other, it's tedious and dangerous to cross the congested streets, and our air quality is terrible to the point of being unsafe for pets and vulnerable groups. Even the plants look like shit because they're so polluted.