Paris keeps closing its streets, and counting
Five years into the rolling reduction of car space, the second-order effects are becoming visible, in air, in noise, in property prices and in who is showing up to the neighbourhood meetings.

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Five years into the rolling reduction of car space, the second-order effects are becoming visible, in air, in noise, in property prices and in who is showing up to the neighbourhood meetings.
After thirty years of compounding success, the Dutch capital's bicycle infrastructure is at capacity. The city's response is unfashionable: redesigning bike paths for *less* throughput, more pause, more conf…
Copenhagen publishes a cycling-policy document that other European cities tend to treat as a curiosity rather than an instrument. The Cykelregnskab, the city's biennial Cycle Account, is the only such report in the wo…
Lyon retired its trams in 1957. The new ones started running in January 2001. Between those two dates the city built a metro, watched the population of central Lyon decline, and discovered that the absence of a tram n…