janDec 13, 2022
Brent Toderian
The new Paris 2021-26 urban biking plan will invest €250 million to, among other things, make 52km of pandemic bike-lanes permanent; add 130km of new bike-lanes; add 130K new bike parking spots; & teach all elementary school students to bike.

Leadership.

https://www.paris.fr/pages/un-nouveau-plan-velo-pour-une-ville-100-cyclable-19554

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Un nouveau plan vélo pour une ville 100 % cyclable

Aménagement de nouvelles infrastructures, développement massif de solutions de stationnement sécurisé, renforcement de l’écosystème vélo… Le plan vélo 2021-2026 vise à faire de Paris une ville 100% cyclable.

Nov 27, 2022 at 2:54amWeb
Show threadBeth D KicinskiNov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian When I was in primary school, all the local children (Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) took part in road safety and cycling through a special training facility located at the Ballarat Airport. That infrastructure still exists, even if it is run down. Might be time for someone to revive it.
Show threadfuzzbizzNov 27, 2022
@no1historychick @BrentToderian Do they teach drivers not to kill children? Because teaching kids seems like it shouldn't be necessary.
Show threadindriNov 27, 2022
@fuzzbizz @no1historychick @BrentToderian
Of course you have to teach children how to move in traffic, especially on a bike. No matter how alert drivers are there's a limit how fast you can react to a child suddenly stepping out behind a parked truck for example.
Show threadfuzzbizzNov 27, 2022
@indri @no1historychick @BrentToderian while true, it's depressing. Basically an active driver drill.
Show threadindriNov 27, 2022
@fuzzbizz @no1historychick @BrentToderian
I don't see it that way at all. Traffic in some form is necessary while guns are not. Learning to navigate traffic is a part of life that children have to learn like saying hello and thank your or paying at the grocery store.
From conventions like how a traffic light works or to step right to give way on a sidewalk to looking left-right-left before crossing a street.
Show threadindriNov 27, 2022
@fuzzbizz @no1historychick @BrentToderian
And of course a lot more when 6th graders are allowed to use their bike on the street.
Show thread😀🚲Nov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian meanwhile US cities like Portland will be spending a couple million bucks per day to perpetuate car supremacy while they hunt for funding sources for their hundreds of planned "urgent safety projects".
Show threadtim_on_two_wheelsNov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian at least it’s a modest start.
Show threadEmily Best 🍂🦔🍃Nov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian and yet #brussels struggles with #goodmove … the comment about centralization is so accurate. I hope someday Brussels can get there too
Show threadOlivierNov 30, 2022
@emilycgb @BrentToderian well at least you have some plan. Come to Liège, it's plain shit here for biking. No leadership, politicians are so affraid to lose electors that only see cars as solely transport mode and a way of life. We have some Frankenstein bike network, nothing is connected, no homogenity in colors, structures, signs... This City should be used as study to show what shouldn't be done. Meanwhile, elsewhere, things are moving the right way. For decades in NL or years in EU
Show threadLukeNov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian I particularly like the holistic, integrated approach
Show threadSiri Wikander 🇺🇳Nov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian ❤️plan velo❤️
Show threadfuzzbizzNov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian Bike infra is one reason we're spending Christmas in Paris (and Utrecht). It'll hurt to come home.
Show threadOlivierNov 30, 2022
@fuzzbizz @BrentToderian I know that feeling. Came back from a week in Zeeland this summer to find out how shitty is our infra in Liège. It hurts to see it and to bike it.
Show threadScott Nasello 🐿️🏃‍♂️🏂Nov 27, 2022
@BrentToderian @vonneudeck is there a version in english?
Show threadMagda TeterNov 28, 2022
@BrentToderian
I hope @[email protected] sees it
Show threadSean BootsNov 28, 2022
@BrentToderian @dsamojlenko Whoa that's awesome!! 🙌
Show threadJean François PorchezNov 28, 2022
@BrentToderian the word “leadership” can’t apply to a mayor, also was candidate for the French presidency for which she received 1,74% in France and just 2,17% in Paris in 2021.
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Nov 28, 2022
@jfporchez @BrentToderian The word "leadership" can apply to a teacher of a class of 20 pupils. What are you on about?
Show threadShield MaidenNov 29, 2022
@BrentToderian Like having a "Tour de Paris" for everyone who has a bike.
Show threadCatherine NovakNov 30, 2022
@BrentToderian Adding to the last post how wonderful I think it is that in Paris, they are teaching all elementary school students to ride bikes.