• plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    To be honest the cycling here is a bit of organised mess. You have to get the vibe of it as it was explained to me. Real problem starts when you want to get outside of Paris because it is so f*ing big, it is half day of riding through suburbs before you get out.

    • Grappling7155@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Longer trips should probably be multimodal if you can no matter where you are in the world. How are the public transportation and bike shares?

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I am bikepacking through Europe, I was in Spain, Portugal and now I am heading towards Belgium.

        I didn’t used any bike share and no trains here either but it is used here all the time.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    221·
    2 days ago

    I just hope that they don’t vote for a right-wing, pro-car, climate-change denying party and mayor during the next election. It’s just how things seem to be going across the EU. But if there’s a greater move away from US money and media, we might see a decrease of right-wing, populist power as their money and influence sources dry up.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      There’s an institutional quirk that protects against that outcome in Paris, and in fact explains the whole success story. It’s that the historical city limits were not expanded in line with urbanisation. This has given the dense city center and its voters - who tend not to own cars - disproportionate political influence over the whole urban area.

      In a way it’s an inverse example of the conservative bias of the US political system, which gives disproportionate influence to exurbs and rural areas.