Bloomberg L.P.

Welcome to Paris, the City That Said No to Cars

Honking horns and screeching tires used to be a cliched scene-setting device for writers describing Paris. Those sounds no longer define a city where cars have taken a back seat. Visitors will ...
Fast Company

How Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes—not cars

It’s 8:45am on a rainy weekday morning in Paris, and I’m standing in what used to be a traffic lane in a busy neighborhood near the city’s largest train stations. Less than a block away, cars are ...
Seattle Times

Long a city that embraced cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams

PARIS (AP) — Ring, ring! It’s rush hour on Paris’ Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener ...
NPR

Paris replaces cars with bikes, closes motorways and plants thousands of trees

Over the past 20 years, the city of Paris has increasingly restricted vehicle traffic — encouraging people to walk, use public transportation or ride their bicycles. The city of Paris is saying au ...
PBS

A longtime city of cars, Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams

PARIS (AP) — Ring, ring! It’s rush hour on Paris’ Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener ...