This is what a 'socialist' mayor does for the citizens. Thanks Anne Hidalgo!

[Surya Gayatri]

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Paris plans to become ‘world cycling capital’

http://www.france24.com/en/20150405-paris-cycling-world-capital-pollution/



Paris is planning to invest €150 million to double the number of cycle paths across the city, a move it hopes will transform it into the “cycling capital of the world” and help solve the French capital’s pollution problem.



Unveiling the proposals on Thursday, Paris’s City Hall said the investment could see the number of journeys made by bike in the capital triple from five percent of all journeys currently to 15 percent by 2020.



The centrepiece of the scheme is a new cycle “express way”: more than 80km of two-way cycle paths following some of Paris’s main avenues and spanning the city from north to south and from east to west.



Other cycle paths outside this main “axis” will be added and expanded, doubling the total length of cycle paths over the next five years to 1,400km.

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A year's subscription for unlimited bike use starts at 19 € ($25).

[PoliticAverse]

1. Still won't be a bicycle friendly as Amsterdam.

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

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Our most admirable mayor is doing her damnedest to get us there!

[ffr]

2. That's a start, but...

the population is still breeding without restriction. You can put in place all the 'save this' 'save that' policies you want, but humans consume. We're conditioned from childhood that you grow up, get a job, get a car, marry and pro-create. Economics and marketing teaches us the stereotype that growth is good and everything else is bad.

We've lost sight of what's really important and the willpower to address the increasingly, if not impossible challenges for our species that lie ahead.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Well, I'm glad Mayor Hidalgo is being proactive and not just throwing up her hands...

[ffr]

9. I said it was a start.

Addressing human overpopulation is probably outside the scope of a mayor.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Well, yeah, unless she institutes a one child policy and closes the gates! LOL!

[ErikJ]

12. Women's empowerment is the best way to control over-population.

I think Europe's population is slightly declining now anyway. But its still extremely dense.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[lovemydog]

6. k & r for socialist mayor of Paris

[Surya Gayatri]

7. She was the protégée of Mayor Delanoë who had the original idea

for the bike sharing "VELIB" scheme, back in 2007.

[lovemydog]

8. Cool. I love all kinds of actions

for healthier, greener cities. It makes for happier people in urban areas!

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Even with an increasing population in the greater Paris region,

(Ile de France), the city itself just keeps getting more and more user friendly, thanks to two successive socialist mayors.

LOVE IT!