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[personal profile] redbird 2024-04-25 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
4. What startled me is that most trips in Paris are made, not by bike, automobile, or mass transit, but on foot. According to this article, in the past few years the number of trips by bicycle has increased, and the number of trips by car decreased by about the same amount, but those two modes add up to about 16% of travel in the city.
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[personal profile] anef 2024-04-26 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
15 minute city?
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[personal profile] hairyears 2024-04-27 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Very much so, within the Périphérique, with modern housing developments designed to replicate the social nucleation of 'Old Paris' squares and random corners that become miniature town and village centres.