Bon, suppose every single citizen in the metro area daily used their cars for their every movement. You should easily realize that's merely impossible in an attractive, or at least livable urban environment. Once you admit that obvious fact, you're all fine with public transportation. Your socialists are far from alone in understanding the earnings of mass transit. If it was so horrible, I wonder why any municipality of the suburbs, whether managed by the right or the left wing would kill to be served by the central subway network. Think about those not even served by the RER network yet, they crave for it. I also wonder why as soon as a suburb is properly connected to the rest of the metro area by the rail network, their real estate values considerably increase. It's even funny. There's nothing like a subway or an RER station to double the worth of anything around.
I'm not for banning cars at all, however. It's good to have some in the streets and some people will always need them for working. But not too many. What they're doing in the central city is just rebalancing the use of streets and plazas. That is more room for pedestrians, bikes, buses and cabs/taxis that are typically of those actually few with real good reasons to be angry at heavy traffic jam, and less room for your random car drivers who've monopolized most the public space for decades. The method may be rude since traffic is being restricted while the necessary public transit means are not there yet, but that's the way it goes to fund rail transit infrastructures over here. If needs are not really pressing, politicians are too slow in funding them.
Your plants are cool, but they're not enough to make up all that crazy amount of grim tar needed by roads and parking room. For example, how do you like bar buildings of the suburbs surrounded by parking lots in the most mediocre urban layouts ever seen in this country? I bet you deeply despise them, like you'd never live in there. Well, that's what your 100% car-oriented transit has produced for decades following WWII. It's pretty interesting to note that almost all quality, attractive urban spots were developed before WWII and that systematic proliferation of cars, even when they were not actually needed. That addiction for cars has certainly been extreme. Then medicine to cure the metro area is a little painful for now, but it's no drama either. It's just the rail network to rigorously extend all over the metro area, by taking no prisoner, and those good old bad habits to change.
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The Paris Métro is not air-conditioned. That's unpleasant.
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If I'm not mistaking, all relatively recent rail vehicles are air-conditioned. Only older ones are not, and they're bound to be replaced by new (and air-conditioned) ones anyways.
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And it's also very dirty.
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Lol, no kidding?! Is it?? Using public transportation while being a ridiculously delicate person, I probably know about that better than you do. That's the Parisian/French society, and those filthy pigs that have no respect for public goods and public space, and their homeless people who've lost everything up to the common sense of decency. Hell, sorry for telling that sordid story, once I passed one who was downright defecating on a platform. And, um, it was kind of noisy, if you see what I mean... There was no choice but passing him, that was quite a hell of a test to me. I ran to the opposite side of that platform, struggling, forcing myself into thinking about anything else, otherwise I was very close to throw up, which would've been quite embarrassing. Sometimes, crap like that happens. Again, it's the current shape of society and I don't think fleeing to a car because it's supposed more comfy is any effective solution. I've always called for communication campaigns and strict rules to humiliate and educate those nasty dirtying the subway and the streets, still waiting. I wish France was like stereotyped Switzerland in that respect, all clean, all respectful for public goods funded by your holy tax money.
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And it stops at night.
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Well it should work 24/7, all year long, which is nothing impossible. When most Euro competitive cities do so, I guess Paris will finally do it too.
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And there are lots of work stoppages due to the hard-Left unions.
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Stereotype. At least, I once saw figures showing that our local rail workers actually didn't go on strike more often than in other comparable European countries. But when they do so, it's surely a mess and too many of them are brainwashed by the far left, indeed. That said, some right ring people are brainwashed and extreme as well, huh?
You can't deny.
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Nonsense. Make no mistake, apartments in there are likely to go sort of expensive. Again, that's why that bar's just inept right there.
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