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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
Absolutely UNTRUE. Not everybody approves of Bertrand Delanoë's anti-car, anti-city, pro-boboland policies. His recent decision to close the Left Bank expressway and to severely restrict traffic on the Right Bank expressway (complete with setting up traffic lights, on an expressway, where there are no pedestrians crossing  ) is criticized by most people outside of boboland, and makes the life of hundreds of thousands of middle-class Parisians miserable, just for the tranquility of a few super rich people who can afford to live in the heart of the city along the Seine River. |
We were talking about République. You remember? That Seine river project is something else, more controversial indeed. I don't even think it's basically a bad idea, but they definitely went too fast on it.
Take it easier. That boboland you're describing is a well known reality, but it's incomplete and not even the topic here. You might be too politicized, mm? I'm not, all I know is that square looks better and more friendly now.
And yes, I maintain 'car addicts'. There's still a whole lot of people both in the city proper and in the inner burbs that won't use the subway or the commuter network while they easily could, because they simply scorn it all. You've never seen any of those? That still certainly includes lots of hypocritical bobos as other kinds of scornful douches. Car addicts goes to them.
You don't have to be the annoying dickhead of a Parisian bobo to feel like cars take too much space in a city, tons of random citizens have that feeling. I live a suburb myself. I tell you, cars have been too invasive, everywhere. That's enough.
I might add that many, if not surely most people from the burbs who really need their cars to get to work don't have to daily pass through the inner city, since they work in the suburbs. Almost all those both living and working in the suburbs can't avoid using their cars indeed. Take someone who lives in Yvelines and works somewhere in Essonne for example. There are countless cases of that kind that won't give a damn about traffic jams over central Paris, that's not their everyday problem that the modern transit policies should address in priority today, suburb-to-suburb moves and business.
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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
[...] the insufferable scarf-wearing, Sartre-reading, cappuccino-sipping bobos à la Bernard Henri-Lévy are those who are turning Paris into a museum and tourist theme park that doesn't attract the European youth anymore.
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Really, you're a little excessive and stereotyping, huh? Who seriously cares about stuff like Jean-Paul Sartre nowadays? Anyway, that well-off local left wing will need help (and bad kicks) to manage the city properly. If that's what you meant, that's obviously right.
You'd better get ready for Hidalgo, though. lol
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Héhéhé.
Since he's both French and a Pritzker prize winner, people are like sorry that he couldn't build a tower yet there.
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