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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Although, it's super common to ear that any problem is to blame on her. It's so common it has become kind of a running gag. "Oh there is a scratch on my car thank you so much Hidalgo".

Some explanation I heard is that people living in Paris or very close kinda like her (expect the richer right-winged neighborhoods in the west) but people outside of Paris hate her more because Paris might be less accessible by car than it used to be. My own take on this is that it's bullshit and Paris was never accessible by car, I have very clear childhood memories of my parents looking for a parking spot for more that 15 minutes while swearing they would never take the car to go to Paris ever again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

People outside of Paris should take their car to the nearest Francilien/RER etc. Station.

Taking your car into the city is just a dumb idea

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

Yeah that's what the city is aiming at.

It's also what a vast majority of people is doing for a very pragmatic reason : RER A has the throughput of an 11-lanes highway (you can easily get to this number assuming that when it's crowed there is a 1500-passenger train departing each two minutes and that 1.5 people per car will comply to security distances).

Sadly not everyone is equal, RER B (north <-> south axis) is overcrowded and has a lot of incidents.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

30 years ago it would commonly take me a full hour to find a parking space in my neighbourhood. I've long since switched to a bicycle. But it certainly wasn't better back then. And the traffic wasn't better either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

swearing they would never take the car to go to Paris ever again

Mission accomplished

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

A true "Thanks Obama" for modern times

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Montreal mayor Valerie Plante has the same story.... Made the city much better for the majority of citizens but got tons of hate from the minority of drivers in the city plus the suburbanites who couldn't find a parking spot on the weekends

Unfortunately she is not seeking re-election due to the hate she gets from a very vocal minority of the ciitizens and the suburbanites who arent even technically citizens in montreal