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A small shortcut in this article that I can't help to point out: > The Volkswagen scandal over emissions-rigging has increased pressure on the French governmen
by jmcomets 11y ago
A small shortcut in this article that I can't help to point out:
> The Volkswagen scandal over emissions-rigging has increased pressure on the French government to act on car pollution.
The current mayor of Paris has been taking actions like this one since she was instated. We regularly have to deal with "50 km/h max speed" measures and it has nothing to do with the VW rigging scandal.
Small sidenote:
> In the rest of the city, cars were allowed but at 20km an hour.
I'm not sure this is true, but I assure to you no one was driving 20 km/h in my neighbourhood.
All in all this was a great opportunity to see the streets of Paris without any cars whatsoever.
- hvidgaard 11y agoThe most annoying this about those speeds, is that a car is far more efficient at 50km/h, than at 20km/h.
- Symbiote 11y agoI suspect the point is to make it pointless to drive, when you can cycle at that speed anyway.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoExcept you are lucky if you can get even to 20 km/h in Paris, forget about 50 km/h. "Fluid traffic" is a red herring in such circumstances - those other cars always get in the way ;)
- kilotaras 11y agoAlso far more deadly.
- shawn-furyan 11y agoThe closed system of the car is more efficient. It's not clear that allowing cars to travel at speeds that makes it impossible for them to share roads with pedestrians is globally efficient. Really, allowing cars at all is a concession to global efficiency. In that light, one can see the benefit to abridging driver's generally assumed right to utterly dominate any place they aren't completely prohibited.