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It’s all an election stunt to try and justify that her war on cars won’t affect Parisians. Ie. If you have everything you need in a 15min walk, you shouldn’t su
by d--b 7y ago
It’s all an election stunt to try and justify that her war on cars won’t affect Parisians. Ie. If you have everything you need in a 15min walk, you shouldn’t suffer that the traffic is reduced.
But the things you occasionally need are getting harder to get. Plumbers, electricians don’t want to come to the city anymore. They will facture in the awful traffic and the fines they get for the lack of parking space. Basically no one will come to your apartment for less than 500€. There potentially are business opportunities there.
- _Microft 7y agoDoes Paris not issue parking permits to craftsmen? German cities offer special parking permits to businesses that need to have unwieldy or heavy gear with them at their customer's place. The yearly fee is in the low hundreds (maybe 250€ even in the larger cities) and usually includes free parking and that even in places where most people normally would not be allowed to park at all, e.g. on Anwohnerparkplätzen (residential parking spaces where one would normally need a permit only available to people living in that street). It might even allow to enter pedestrian areas in some cities.
- hbbio 7y ago> Does Paris not issue parking permits to craftsmen? No
- agumonkey 7y agoI heard it was free.. odd.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoYes, Paris has similar permits. Not free, though. But the issue is not that but lack of parking space. A permit only allows them to park in actual parking spaces. Most of the time there aren't any available...
- gnopgnip 7y agoIf everyone can get to what they need within 15 minutes, traffic as a whole would be greatly reduced
- jackjeff 7y agoNo. Because of the vast majority of people who work in Paris can’t afford to live there. And if you live in an area with terrible public transport (not uncommon far from the inner city and the first ring of surrounding suburbs) then you basically have no choice. It’s either you spend 3+hrs in public transport or 1.5hours in a car. Guess what people do....
- oska 7y agoCan't people 'park & ride'? i.e. drive to their nearest train station and then catch the train in to the city centre.
- hk__2 7y ago> It’s all an election stunt to try and justify that her war on cars won’t affect Parisians. Ie. If you have everything you need in a 15min walk, you shouldn’t suffer that the traffic is reduced. That’s quite the opposite. Car traffic generates pollution and takes unnecessary space on the street: some sidewalks are so narrow you can’t have two people walking next to each other. Reduced traffic is a benefit, not something the large majority of Parisians will suffer of. > Plumbers, electricians don’t want to come to the city anymore. A plumber or an electrician doesn’t necessarily need a car to move their stuff. There are already a bunch of cargo-bike plumbers in Paris.
- toast0 7y agoI'm not in Europe, but when a plumber comes to visit me, they usually have a truck with essentially a small plumbing supply in the back. If whatever I'm having trouble with isn't salvagable, they can usually install one from the truck on the same visit. I don't imagine a cargo bike plumber is hauling around water heaters or toliets just in case.
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