2006 - 2026: What are the most surprising changes to happen in major cities?

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by mousquet

Uhh, it may be exciting to a lot of people, it is certainly not quick.
La Fayette and Charenton streets on my mind. It took something like 10 years for them to set up their cycling lanes. It was a hellish mess for the whole time.
And there are quite more instances of that kind.

Of course, the thing is urban planners have to work on the consequences on traffic over an entire area and beyond, which definitely causes headaches to them.
There are pros and cons, but it's nothing quick anyway.

And sometimes, the result is not satisfying. Like cycling lanes on boulevard de Magenta that are on the sidewalks. Pedestrians are constantly in conflict with cyclists.
They couldn't do any better because of traffic on the boulevard which is an important axis within the central city, that's not wide enough for actual separated cycling lanes.

Cycling traffic on boulevard de Sébastopol is hard to handle. Lanes are too narrow and two-way.
I bet Brisavoine never figured it out, cause he probably doesn't know what a bicycle is.



Paris has never been "gritty". It is the prettiest city in the world.

I don’t like bikes. I find Amsterdam annoying because of them. But more annoying than bikes, it’s cars. They literally destroy our urban fabric. They cannot be abolished of course, but they certainly make our cities much worse. Paris has like what? 1,000 km of rail lines (Metro+RER)? Angry and noisy drivers right in the heart of Paris shouldn’t be the priority.