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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

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Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago
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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

Originally post from biwook: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1kn7mb5/paris_pollution_after_they_added_bike_lanes_and/

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  • azimir@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    “It turns out not burning a bunch of fossil fuels leads to less pollution”… news at 11.

    The really dumb part of all of this is that people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation for so long that it’s hard to even envision a world without them. They’re normal, despite being expensive, dangerous, horribly inefficient, killing people actively (crashes) and passively (air pollution, plastic in our lungs, parkinsons/dementia, obesity, and more), and directly contributing to isolation in our communities. Every car we can get off the road, especially in our cities, makes the world a better place.

    • grue@lemmy.worldM
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      people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation

      That wasn’t an accident and it didn’t just ‘happen;’ it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol’fashioned racism.

      Some random sources to get folks started:

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement

      • https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/americas-suburban-experiment

      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World's_Fair)

      • https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-birth-of-sprawl-how-ending-the-great-depression-meant-inventing-the-suburbs

  • slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    Just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it’ll fix everything bro. Bro, just one more lane. Please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro c’mon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please! Just need one more lane

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Fact: 99% of city planners quit one lane before they fix traffic

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    It’s good that you included the source because without a scale this meant fuck all.

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    This graph is HIGHLY misleading as it doesn’t include the time in 2019 when Notre Dame’s pollution was much higher for a brief period of time.

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      I was confused for a moment.

      Click to see the reason why Notre Dame had much higher pollution for brief period of time in 2019.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire

      • Yeather@lemmy.ca
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        20 days ago

        Why not just link the wiki without all the extra fluff?

        • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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          They were just explaining what the link goes to.

          • huppakee@lemm.ee
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            20 days ago
            Kinda weird to
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            in a spoiler

            (if you ask me)

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    And it is going to get even better: https://www.dw.com/en/france-paris-to-increase-car-free-zones-after-referendum/a-72019387

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    Although it is good that they added riding bicycle lanes I doubt that is the only reason for the lowering of pollution.

    Not only do we have electric and hybrid cars, due to euro standard combustion engines have become a lot cleaner during the same span of time. Plus public transport has also become a lot better during that time.

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