Slate: Paris is ahead of New York in the transportation(bike) zealotry

and then compare the same shit, just a little later, going on in NYC and other places. It’s a long article and the part presenting the drawbacks and opposition is further down the page in the article. But it’s powerful, but ignored by the writer of the article. The alarm bells should be going off in the writer’s head about the business losses and the sale of a MAJOR department store in Paris that I’ve been to many times. And that’s the affordable one. Notice also the support for the “15 minute cities” from the Mayor of Paris. We’ve already go them, and they’re called neighborhoods, but the difference in the new Urbanists/Socialists desires is that those 15 minute cities are essentially gated and closed. We can leave our neighborhoods anytime and anyway we want. That will be taken away with the 15 minute cities. Read it for the comparative nature of what’s going on. And then realize that the crap we’re fighting is all over. And coordinated. https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycling-history-france.html