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Parisian car ban now planned for 2024

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I spent some time in Pontevedra Spain a few years ago, a city that has to a large extent gotten rid of cars. With some minor issues mostly around commercial traffic for goods and businesses, people overwhelmingly seemed to agree that it was a success. Business was up, local stores, restaurants and so on were doing much better, people were moving to the place again, and so on.

I hope more cities in Europe start similar initiatives, we have the good fortune that our cities are older than the car.

> we have the good fortune that our cities are older than the car.

That’s really key.

The layout of US cities make no sense without cars.

This is a popular meme, but it can't possibly be true that (most) US cities have been founded since the automobile was invented.

I live in a northeastern US city that has streets going back to the 1600s. The oldest (continuously inhabited) city in the US was founded in the 1500s.

Here is a list that supposedly has founding dates of various cities and it looks like hundreds listed in the US are before 1885; less than a dozen after:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Americas...

The funny thing about many old U.S. cities is that they were designed up-front to have wide streets.

That's fine, but there better not be any future articles with headlines like "People have fled the urban core and now the city is facing a tax crisis".

If these headlines don't come, then more power to Paris.

If it succeeds (and I think it will), I hope other cities will take example on this. The rules seems reasonable: no through traffic but local traffic and deliveries permitted, and Paris has an extremely dense subway.

It won’t. I lived there for years and never owned a car. Nor did I knew someone owning a car. Obviously, car owner exits there. But a lot of car are transient from the outer core and suburbs.

And that was before uber/lyft. Relying on taxies, métro and bikeshare was already really common.

For me and my peers, car ride inside Paris was a bad idea and a chore.

I respect this, but on a personal side note I don't understand the allure of city living. There is disease, crime, increased cost, and work is not necessarily there anymore.

Not to worry, Paris will be fine, and there are alternative locales for those who prefer a more car centric lifestyle.

It's not like Notre Dame burned down or anyth...oh.

The city have been burning down since a solid millennium. Stuff comes and go.

I don’t know in 2022. But around 2010 for a young French graduate that where the skilled jobs were.

No French wants to live in Paris. It’s expensive and full of parisien.

But I had fun, met my wife there. And discovered that big city life can enlarge your horizon.

Would I live there again? Absolutely not. But I still think it’s was a great experience, and it’s nice to be in «the center of the world ».

By that I mean : If something happen in France, it will have some occurrence in Paris.

"Delivery drivers will still have access, and people will still be able to drive into the area to visit friends, or access amenities like shops or the theater according to the city’s deputy mayor David Belliard."

Sounds like the key difference is they don't want people commuting by car.

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