@BrentToderian agree. What's difficult to change is the mindset, here in Brisbane people would scream murder if they were "deprived of their right to drive" 🙄

Public transport fares are now a flat $0.5, yet not many people want to give up the convenience of driving.

Petrol prices are now artificially kept low by government subsidies, but even when they were sky high, not many people gave up the car.

It's real stubbornness and entitlement

@BrentToderian

Do you also have statistics on traffic accidents involving pedestrians? Seeing how the bikers ride in Paris, I bet they went up.

@BrentToderian

Air quality improved not just in Paris, but all around, you can notice it in the map itself. You can notice that air quality is even better outside of Paris (where there has been little change in the use of cars).
So the improvement may be due to changes in car technology, newer cars pollute less and there are fewer diesel cars than before.

@BrentToderian

Even if there wasn’t a climate crisis and now energy crisis or more broadly a resource crisis, getting rid of cars makes a communities safer, quieter, healthier, and it less expensive for everyone people who live there and for the government as well.

Getting rid of cars altogether it’s a lot cheaper than buying electrical cars.

So come to save the environment, but stay because everything else was a better world anyway

@BrentToderian #Alt4you

Screenshot of the headline of an article from the Washington Post: “Paris said au revoir to cars: Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for park…”

There are also two heat maps (or air pollution maps, I guess) of the city of Paris, viewed from above:

• the first picture is totally red and dark orange tones, probably from before the cars restriction rules were added
• the second picture is almost totally green, except for a small reddish line around the capital, which highlights the beltway where the most cars continue to pass.