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Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office. (www.radiofrance.fr)

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[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went for an event in Paris a couple of years ago that was held on an annual day they had where they didn't allow any pedestrian traffic into the centre core. It was an amazing experience only having to share the road with buses and taxis.

People don't consider the tourism money involved in these actions. There were over 300 people in our group from outside of the area, just for a single day event for a longboard community. Great job by the mayor to hold strong on these actions.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I went for an event in Paris a couple of years ago that was held on an annual day they had where they didn't allow any pedestrian traffic into the centre core.

Did you mean that private cars were disallowed here?

It sounds a bit dystopian to ban pedestrians, but the context makes it seem like pedestrians were allowed and private cars were not.

[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, private cars. Sorry, migraine the past couple days and sometimes my words don't come out the way they worked in my head hahaha.