Paris and French thinking about equality
04-09-23, 12:30 PM
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Paris and French thinking about equality
When Paris moved to remove auto parking and provide safer roads for bicyclists, part of the rationale was their notion of class equality which dates back to the French Revolution. As one person stated:
“The redistribution of public space is a policy of social redistribution,” he told me in 2021. “Fifty percent of public space is occupied by private cars, which are used mostly by the richest, and mostly by men, because it’s mostly men who drive, and so in total, the richest men are using half the public space. So if we give the space to walking, biking, and public transit, you give back public space to the categories of people who today are deprived.”
More than half the land in American cities is devoted to the movement and parking and storage of motor vehicles. That is in effect a massive subsidy for motorists that everyone pays for whether they own or drive a car. It also is the key factor responsible for bicycle hazards that discourage the use of bicycles in cities.
In the past year corporations launched campaigns against electric street cars in 8 U.S. cities. The oil companies want to maximize their profits regardless of the cost to the environment, world peace, and the health of people.
“The redistribution of public space is a policy of social redistribution,” he told me in 2021. “Fifty percent of public space is occupied by private cars, which are used mostly by the richest, and mostly by men, because it’s mostly men who drive, and so in total, the richest men are using half the public space. So if we give the space to walking, biking, and public transit, you give back public space to the categories of people who today are deprived.”
More than half the land in American cities is devoted to the movement and parking and storage of motor vehicles. That is in effect a massive subsidy for motorists that everyone pays for whether they own or drive a car. It also is the key factor responsible for bicycle hazards that discourage the use of bicycles in cities.
In the past year corporations launched campaigns against electric street cars in 8 U.S. cities. The oil companies want to maximize their profits regardless of the cost to the environment, world peace, and the health of people.
04-09-23, 12:52 PM
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Another anti-motorist, anti-oil companies, class equality political rant; recommend that it be combined with the first similar rant thread that mentioned Paris which was moved to the P&R list.
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