Climbing Buttes | 🚲 Montreuil Park 🌳 Parmentier & the New La Fayette Cycle Path

[@miketrebert7788]

Rue La Fayette seems the best solution - muscle those cars away. The narrow green paths beside the pedestrian pathways seems a bad, and hopefully temporary, compromise.

[@LAsuperette]

It s not temporary unfortunately. For years the magenta cycle path was same color as pavement and always full of pedestrians. It took them about 15 years to color it green. They should let fast cyclists ride on the bus lane, especially on the way down to Republique. It s too narrow and a lot of cyclists want to overtake on the ascent.

[@vladimir.zlokazov]

I remember looking at Boulevard de Magenta in in 2010 when it was just recently reconstructed and thought 'wow! this is great!' :) not that great after all these years. Interestingly I also saw the contraflow lane on the sidewalk on Rue La Fayette being constructed (on another visit several years later). I thought it was kind of narrow back then and bound to create conflicts with pedestrians. It seems that since then the city has decided 'f*ck it! let's just take the whole car lane out and make a cycle path instead'.

[@EKsUrbanTracks]

Hahah I wish it were that easy! But yeah, the city is certainly not stopping!

[@viktordahl5626]

Je surnomme le Boulevard de Magenta "L'Enfer". Je hais tellement cette piste qu'il m'arrive régulièrement de faire des détours pour l'éviter, mention spéciale à la continuité Barbès dans le 18ème 🤢. (Surtout en journée, tard le soir et la nuit ça va) D'ailleurs, passer du Boulevard de Magenta à rue Lafayette comme tu l'as fais, c'est comme passer d'un Vélib à plat à un Lapierre cadre carbone, la différence est frappante !

[@EKsUrbanTracks]

Je suis content de ne pas avoir à la fréquenter !