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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

84.5% of the Parisians riding around on unicycles

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Technically I suppose walking is a zero wheel vehicle and public transport has less than one wheel per passenger too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

After my visit to Paris, I’d say the remaining are riding other Parisian’s faces. What a beautifully free people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This would be a dream here in NYC. Our car drivers are absolutely batshit insane (so are the cyclists but not nearly as much as cars)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You have to be insane to do either in New York.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

interior of Paris, accounting for 11.2% of trips compared to 4.3%. A similar trend is seen in trips between the suburbs and the city center: 14% are made by bicycle and 11.8% by car.

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Travel on foot, however, continues to lead mobility within the municipality with 53%, followed by those made on public transit, with 30%. The study was carried out with 3,337 residents of the capital region who agreed to be fitted with a GPS tracker.

Remember those yellow vest protests over the price of gas?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yellow vest was a very non parisian protest. Some gathered in Paris because unfortunately if it's not in Paris, media doesn't care as much but most of the protesters were not from Paris.