The French capital has experienced a surge in bike lanes and cycling infrastructure, but this progress was overshadowed by the tragic death of 27-year-old cyclist and advocate Paul Varry. A murder investigation was initiated following a suspected act of road rage in a bike lane near the iconic La Madeleine church. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led a moment of silence for Varry, emphasizing her determination to continue pushing for a car-free Paris.
Cyclist s waiting for a green light on a bridge over the Seine in Paris on June 17. The French capital has seen an explosion in bikes and cycling lanes in recent years.PARIS – It sent a shock through Paris , a city striving to transform itself into one of the great cycling metropolises in the world:in a bike lane just a few metres from La Madeleine, the landmark neoclassical church, in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage .
The debate in the French capital reflects the challenges facing policymakers around the world as they ask constituents to alter ingrained life habits in the fight against climate change. Ms Hidalgo’s experiment – which has turned many Parisian streets into whooshing parades of pedalling commuters – is also unfolding in a city that has long harboured an innate tension between the big-city need for speed and the more languorous pleasures of “la belle vie”.
Her government has already turned roads on the banks of the Seine into walking and bike paths, created hundreds of miles of new bike lanes elsewhere, and reserved most of the Rue de Rivoli, a key east-west thoroughfare, for cyclists. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo during the lighting up of the traditional Christmas decorations and lights of Rue Faubourg Saint-Honore in Paris on Nov 26. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Ms Hidalgo, among other things, has argued that her policies have contributed to significant reductions in the amount of air pollution in the city.
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