I lived in #Paris in the 90s. A city totally dominated by cars.
Hard to walk in, a nightmare to ride a bike in.
Look at it now: a city where cars, rather than people, have trouble moving.
Which, in the overheated, hurricane-plagued 2020s, is how a city *should* look.
Cyclists in #Paris now outnumber drivers.
And that's a good—no, a great—thing.
I wrote about what it was like to ride a bicycle in #Paris for the NY Times over 20 years ago. It was...a struggle.
No #bikeshare, you had to rent a bike from the RATP (which runs the metro.)
You can find a link to the article on my webpage:
Taras has been writing travel features since the mid-90s, for the likes of The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Condé Nast Traveller, Travel & Leisure, Afar, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Times of London. He's especially interested in food, slow travel, trains
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