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But is it easy enough to park your car outside of the city ?

by maelito 11y ago

elros 11y ago
I think the whole point is precisely to make it impractical to own or rely on a car.
- awjr 11y ago
  Or more precisely that you do not need to own a car to live in the city. That does not mean you should not have access to one through a car share programme or cheap car rental.
  - awjr 11y ago
    Roll on self-drive cars!
- tomjen3 11y ago
  Its Paris, cars there get burned pretty often. It already can't be cheap or easy to have a car in Paris, people probably have them because they are worth it, which means the alternatives suck. Make them not suck.
  - elros 11y ago
    > It already can't be cheap or easy to have a car in Paris, people probably have them because they are worth it, which means the alternatives suck. The public transportation system in Paris is excellent, maybe the best in Europe. Using a car in Paris, in the city center, has a lot more to do with status. It's harder to fix that.
raverbashing 11y ago
Depends, looks like some RER stations have parking available, from a quick googling But lots of people live in a walkable/bikeable distance from a station
- smonff 11y ago
  Paris is definitively livable without a car. The RER, trolley, metro and bus network is so dense that it absolutely makes no sense to use a car (this is far more longer, dangerous and stressful to use a car), even when you live in suburb. I do live in Paris suburb. People just got very bad habits, but they could manage to change it through education and state promotion like this day. This day was not enough though, and it should be a reccurent event, I mean not yearly but monthly or something.
- masklinn 11y ago
  > But lots of people live in a walkable/bikeable distance from a station In paris itself yes, but if you live in the suburbs last time I was in paris there weren't really large and convenient parking options on the outskirt of the city itself, so you couldn't trivially leave your car and hop in the underground or a bus.

But is it easy enough to park your car outside of the city ?

by maelito 11y ago

But is it easy enough to park your car outside of the city ?

elros 11y ago

I think the whole point is precisely to make it impractical to own or rely on a car.

awjr 11y ago
Or more precisely that you do not need to own a car to live in the city. That does not mean you should not have access to one through a car share programme or cheap car rental.
- awjr 11y ago
  Roll on self-drive cars!
tomjen3 11y ago
Its Paris, cars there get burned pretty often. It already can't be cheap or easy to have a car in Paris, people probably have them because they are worth it, which means the alternatives suck. Make them not suck.
- elros 11y ago
  > It already can't be cheap or easy to have a car in Paris, people probably have them because they are worth it, which means the alternatives suck. The public transportation system in Paris is excellent, maybe the best in Europe. Using a car in Paris, in the city center, has a lot more to do with status. It's harder to fix that.

raverbashing 11y ago

Depends, looks like some RER stations have parking available, from a quick googling But lots of people live in a walkable/bikeable distance from a station

smonff 11y ago
Paris is definitively livable without a car. The RER, trolley, metro and bus network is so dense that it absolutely makes no sense to use a car (this is far more longer, dangerous and stressful to use a car), even when you live in suburb. I do live in Paris suburb. People just got very bad habits, but they could manage to change it through education and state promotion like this day. This day was not enough though, and it should be a reccurent event, I mean not yearly but monthly or something.
masklinn 11y ago
> But lots of people live in a walkable/bikeable distance from a station In paris itself yes, but if you live in the suburbs last time I was in paris there weren't really large and convenient parking options on the outskirt of the city itself, so you couldn't trivially leave your car and hop in the underground or a bus.