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And there are places in Paris where you cannot drive a modern American style car down the medieval streets. Those boulevards are relatively new.
by justinator 9y ago
And there are places in Paris where you cannot drive a modern American style car down the medieval streets. Those boulevards are relatively new.
- egypturnash 9y agoI'm no sure that's a bad thing at all. I would imagine it encourages people to walk, bicycle, and use public transit to get around?
- beguiledfoil 9y agoAmericans hate small streets. It's a dumb opinion, but it's widely held.
- justinator 9y agoOh! Didn't want to reflect the size of the street as a good, or bad, thing. Just as another explanation why Paris can be SO dense, with buildings that aren't incredibly high - Buildings are packed in close to each other. The height of the buildings are a signature architectural element of Paris, broken only by the Tour Eiffel. Businesses many times occupy the ground floor, with apartments up top - relatively normal in European cities, but against many zoning laws in the States. The layout of the city certainly doesn't make owning a personal car all that, say, automatic of a choice. Paris is not a large city. When living there, I may have used the metroonce a month, but mostly just rode my bike to where I wanted to go (cheaper! and usually faster...). You could easily walk half the city in a relatively short amount of time (as I was oft to do after a party!). High speed trains could whisk you to many bordering countries in just a few hours. Ah! Paris: un joli désordre!
- egypturnash 9y agoman i wanna move to paris now that sounds like paradise.
- megy 9y agoYes, another great thing about Paris.