The Paris Connection
Apr 17th, 2008 by Jervey
(Photo: Courtesy of New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign)
Aaron Neparsak–the original tireless pen behind Streetsblog–has a piece in NY Mag about an inspiration shift from London to Paris after the Congestion Pricing boondoggle. It starts thusly:
With the death of Mayor Bloomberg’s London-style congestion-pricing proposal, New York’s transportation advocates have turned to Paris for inspiration. Bertrand Delanoë was elected mayor of the French capital in 2001 on a platform of creating more “civilized space” and a promise to “fight with all the means at my disposal against the harmful, ever-increasing, and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile.”
Read the whole thing. Paris is doing some pretty spectacular things, and we should be paying close attention.