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What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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An impression of Paris
A week ago I went to Paris for the weekend, it’s a really beautiful city.
Talking about sustainablility, I was positively surprised when I saw that in the city center, there were a lot of bikes, electric bikes, electric scooters and so many pedestrian streets.
Along the Seine, there is a long pedestrian street where people go walking, running and go by bike; once this street was open to traffic, but then they decided to close it and make it an amazing way to stroll thru the city without polluting the environment.
During my three days there I never took a taxi, because it was so easy to go around with a bike or an electric scooter! And if I had to reach a further place, I took public transportation because they are very well organized.
Even from the airport there is no need to take a taxi, because under the airport there is the train line which is connected to the city center: it’s so much cheaper than a taxi, and it’s also easy to take.
In big cities I find it rea lly important to embrace public transportation, public bikes and other means of transport that do not consume petrol, like electric scooter (which I used a lot).
Hi, I've never been to Paris but I think this would be the perfect example for all the big cities in the world and it could reduce a lot the CO2 emissions. It could turn the world into a better place again, because the CO2 that we produce is destroying the climate and causing problems to the nature and to the oceans.
That's amazing!
I've been in Vienna for almost a month this summer and I noticed quite the same as you did. Most of the people move by using a bike/e-bike, that are really cheap (the first hour is gratis and the second is like 1 euro) and every street is done to have both pedestrians and bikers. By doing so it is not just ecofriendly but also much safer (where I live if you want to go by bike you must go in the street together with cars and it isn't always a good idea..). Also, if you have to travel more, you can choose between subways -that bring you everywhere really fast-, trams, buses or trains. Vienna is obviously a big city so it is normal to see lots of cars, but I wonder how would it be if there were no public transport..!
It is wonderful to hear that always more cities are going green 