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

[Surya Gayatri]

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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[JDPriestly]

1. Who drives in Paris? You park your car and take the Metro. No need to drive. No need for

a bicycle either, but once cars are off the streets, bikes are safe as are pedestrians. Not that there are no cars in Paris, but there are few when compared to the population. Public transportation is the key to getting cars off the streets.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Oh, but cycling across this beautiful city is SO much nicer than

descending into that 'hole in the ground'!

[JDPriestly]

3. No doubt. But only safe if those who need to get places fast are briefly undergournd and not

driving on the streets.

[Surya Gayatri]

4. Things are SO much safer for cyclists now than when I started cycling here

30+ years ago.

It was so hair-raising that I was among the few pioneers who would even try.

Now, easy peasy, at least on the 'grands axes' with dedicated, protected cycle lanes.