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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I said I don't care about it.  Learn to read.[/quote]
You don’t care about the very thing you claim to care about. If you care about what it takes to make cities successful I would suggest that you start reading. [/quote]

You think that a playground for the wealthy is success. I don't.  You seem to not understand that different people have different values.

I'd consider a solid bus line down Georgia avenue that provides consistent and reliable service to a large number of people a success.

I just don't care about luxury stores.[/quote]
“I want walkable pedestrian zones all over the city”

“I don’t care about and prefer to remain ignorant about how to make sure that these walkable pedestrian zones are a long-term success”

You might want to sit this conversation out. [/quote]

You can’t fool those of us with experience in Paris and Berlin and Amsterdam where you don’t see many interstates serving luxury areas and yet they do just fine for centuries. [/quote]

That’s funny because Parisians don’t sound thrilled with cyclists.

The New York Times:

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”[/quote]

Lol, then why do the pro-bike lane people in paris keep winning re-election? 'Nobody like them' Ha. Parisians just like to complain.[/quote]
You communicate like a child which is consistent with your opinions. The idea that the last Parisian election was a referendum on bike lanes is ignorant.  Hidalgo won the last election with about only 200k votes (city population 2m) in the second round after only claiming 30% of the vote in the first round in a year with record low turnout. Her party, PS, has held the mayoralty of Paris for the last 20 years.

When she ran for President just last year, she received only 1.7% of the vote in the first round which is the lowest vote for a PS candidate in history. For reference, PS got 28% of the first round vote in 2012. And to make matters worse, she got absolutely embarrassed in Paris only getting 5% of the vote in the first round.

So it’s laughable that you are ignorant enough to think that there is massive public support for what is going on in Paris. I would encourage you to learn more about subjects you are interested in than reading some tweets or something and thinking you’re an expert.

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