How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
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Referenced in urban planning threads on making cities less car-centric, and the channel is recommended for road and bike safety.
What it is
Not Just Bikes visits Paris to see how Mayor Anne Hidalgo's policies are turning it into a '100% cyclable' city. It looks at the changes that took space from cars for bikes and people.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends gcanyon · 2022-11 · on “The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths”
Not Just Bikes on YouTube covers road/pedestrian/bike safety extensively. [LINK] Specific videos: Crossing the street should be safer: [LINK] How to quickly build a cycling city: [this video] Wasting money on car infrastructure: [LINK] The wrong way to set speed limits: [LINK] Safe cycling: [LINK] "Stroads" are dangerous: [LINK]
Cites kitkat_new · 2022-04 · on “Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses”
Here a comparison is outlined between to ways of making cities less car centric: [this video] still, probably not as extreme as US standard...
Cites tenacious_tuna · 2022-05 · on “Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security”
> [Cars] are a feature of the new world, just not the US. If Europe had the bulk of it's development in the post-car era, it would've turned out the same way. A huge portion of Europe was destroyed.(and consequently rebuilt) in WWI and WWII, which are both firmly in the post-car era. They rebuilt with an emphasis on trains. Where they didn't, or in later years when they chose instead to invest in car development, some of them are now turning back to human-centric development [1]. > ... Need even bigger metal boxes and you need more of them and you have to wait for them and they are often late... In terms of space-occupation in cars vs buses (or trains), mass transit absolutely wins. This is
Cites Tobu · 2022-10 · on “Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’”
Progress is fast (much better than when Vélib was launched in 2007), most arrondissements (except maybe 15th/16th) are convenient to get around, the center has some huge lanes that bode well for the future, and there's roadwork at just about every large intersection that hasn't been upgraded yet. [this video]