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I tried to find some actual details on this, apparently it goes back to an announcement in January from Anne Hidalgo when she said she wanted to make 60k space
by blakesterz 6y ago
I tried to find some actual details on this, apparently it goes back to an announcement in January from Anne Hidalgo when she said she wanted to make 60k spaces into bike lanes. Now it's 70k and they're asking people what should be done with the space? Interesting idea.
I assume most of the streets in Paris were built before cars were a big thing, what was that space used for way back then? Sounds like a silly question, but, did people park horses in the same spaces used for cars now? (I assume you didn't "park" your horse, but it seems like more or less the same concept?)
- xphilter 6y agoI always assume it was filled with merchant carts as that’s always how old cities are portrayed in movies. But I honestly have no idea. Maybe there was more “sidewalk” before and the street slowly encroached over the decades?
- gsnedders 6y agohttps://monovisions.com/ancient-road-rue-lepic-paris-from-the-early-20th-century-1900s/ https://monovisions.com/ancient-road-rue-lepic-paris-from-th... has a bunch of early 20th century photos of Paris: some used by wagons, some used by markets, but largely by people walking.
- ourmandave 6y ago...Anne Hidalgo when she said she wanted to make 60k spaces into bike lanes. Bike lanes or Lime and Bird scooter lanes?
- DominikPeters 6y agoOld film footage suggests to me that it was just more "lanes" and in general more chaotic, e.g.: https://youtu.be/fo_eZuOTBNc?t=115 https://youtu.be/fo_eZuOTBNc?t=115 https://youtu.be/VO_1AdYRGW8 https://youtu.be/VO_1AdYRGW8
- jeromenerf 6y agoThere are lots of narrow one way streets with no or one side parking lanes. The large streets have been rebuilt many times already, before and after the war. The Haussmann reform is famous for enlarging the streets to make way for protests, err, no, army maneuvers. Large, straight streets.
- dsego 6y ago> Make way for protests Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wasn't it to prevent barricades?
- jeromenerf 6y agoThat was just a poor attempt at a joke. Funny note though, protesters are counted by the police only if not walking on the sidewalks. Those would be considered observers.
- cm2187 6y ago> I assume most of the streets in Paris were built before cars were a big thing The streets of Paris were mostly built at the end of the XIX century where cars were common, just powered by horses. The problem since the mid 1990s is the increase in the car traffic. It is remarkable when you watch movies from the 70s to see those empty streets, full of empty parking slots on the sides. For instance this short film. Shot early in the morning (so empty streets expected) but look at the side of the roads, almost no cars parked anywhere. Today these streets are packed bumper to bumper. It feels like another city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-GqZIR0HUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-GqZIR0HUw But you would notice the same on any film or documentary from the 70s.