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100% right. there is also a very weird feeling when you see paris mayor hating so much on cars but loving cabs so much (the g7 taxi, biggest taxi company in fra

100% right. there is also a very weird feeling when you see paris mayor hating so much on cars but loving cabs so much (the g7 taxi, biggest taxi company in france, is a gigantic donator to the socialist party and has been for decades) at the end her dream is for paris to be copenhagen , a city for the rich people living in the center. if they re healthy theyll bike if they re old theyll have a cab or private driver (just like our dear mayor) and of course lets not forget rich tourists who will ride cabs to go by hermes bags. this is totally disrespectful toward people living in suburbs and having the need to commute by car

vladvasiliu 4y ago
While I mostly agree with your points, I think it's fair to say that commuting by car to Paris proper has been absolute hell for a while now. Parking is horrendously expensive, and it's not always covered by the employer, especially for people not very high up the ladder (think secretaries and even "higher-up" outsourced personnel). I can understand wanting to limit cars and push public transit. But boy, do I feel that PT has been on a steady decline for many years. So people get squeezed from both sides. So there's still an absurd number of cars on the road around rush hour. I can't wait for the new metro lines to open and see how things will change. But I think the main issue is the extreme centralization: every company wants to be in Paris proper or La Defense. There are only so many holes you can dig under a city.