The €44BN Plan to Clean Up Paris Before the Olympics

It's one of the world's most popular tourist destinations and one of Europe's most populous cities. However, the city known as the City of Light is struggling to shine in one area in particular: the place given to nature in its 20 districts.
Aware of this problem, and in response to growing dissatisfaction among residents in particular, the city council has launched a number of initiatives to make Paris greener. Urban redevelopment, cleaning up the Seine, developing public transport... The projects are multiplying, and that's what we're going to see in this new episode of Looking 4.
On the menu for this video, I present :
- The greening of the Champs Élysées with the project by PCA-Stream, Philippe Chiambaretta's architectural firm.
- The new terraces on the Champs Élysées
- The Paris 2024 Olympics and cleaning up the Seine
- Grand Paris Express
- Renovation of Paris stations
- The Paris bicycle plan
- Tour triangle and Tour Montparnasse
- Creation of new parks and green spaces
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00:00 Rethinking and greening the Champs Élysées
04:26 Swimming in the Seine
05:29 Plan to clean up the Seine
07:13 The Grand Paris Express
07:54 Renovation of Paris train stations
09:25 Rethinking the Gare du Nord
10:13 Bike plan to make Paris 100% bikeable
10:30 The new PLU against high-rise buildings
10:46 The Triangle Tower
11:19 Renovating the Montparnasse Tower
11:52 Creating new parks in Paris
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[@myotiswii]

Nice that they are taking the olymics as actually improvement and not just throwing out money

[@martint6680]

If only! It is a full waste of money, bike lanes without basic safety (🚦), elevators for train station where the trains (recently modernized) have two big steps to get in anyway, The swimming pool unfit for the games, being enlarged (doubling the price) before realizing the room for spectators was not enough anyway... The rats, the smell, the pickpockets, the constant strikes in the metro, the unpainted and rusting Eiffel tower, rape in broad daylight (and in front of the Eiffel Tower!), drug addicts everywhere... Socialist management is at its height.

[@razorwireclouds5708]

@@martint6680 Hidalgo's policies reduced carbon pollution by 40% in the last 10 years. Violent thefts have fallen by 25% and property damage by 2-5%. And drugs are a major problem everywhere right now. Use has increased 23% in the last 10 years GLOBALLY. You have no clue what the term "socialism" means. But if you're looking for someone to blame for all the shit we're seeing in the West, I suggest you look towards those who've forced neoliberal austerity and pro-business (aka anti-general public) policies. Pieces of garbage like Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron who've cut taxes on the ultra-rich, gutted public spending and eroded worker's rights are the ones who've made France worse. Obviously. Because clownservatives and neoliberals couldn't govern a public toilet, let alone a country.

[@BostonElton]

@@martint6680 are you being honest or are you just spewing right wing propaganda

[@doragonzx]

let me tell you, Paris transport comity and most of the infrastructures are far from ready for. 2024, plus they did an horrendous job in managing all the things

[@OhNotThat]

Very happy to see the decline of American-lead car culture in Europe! European cities are meant to be walkable, bikeable and filled with rapid service transport like trolleytrams, metrotrains and even buses (if no other options can be made available). American cities are wastelands of open parking spots that bake in the hot sun and are always overfilled, expensive too.

[@RendererEP]

American cities *WERE* walkable until the 1960s

[@krispykruzer]

Been to Paris recently, I can confirm that there’s a lot of cars, but equally a huge amount of paths and roads dedicated to foot and bike traffic, it would be foolish to drive into Paris to do something when the public transport system works so well event though Parisians might think otherwise

[@andrewlewis4047]

I don’t know if you noticed, but cars were the fastest way to build a network across the united states because there was nothing else and railways couldn’t transport large military firepower for wars that everyone was scared of at the time. American just hasn’t recovered from that and now with the split of the country from political warfare everyone is scared of each other.

[@Freshbott2]

@@andrewlewis4047railways can transport military firepower. They still do in the US… The interstate was pitted as a way to let people escape in case of a nuclear attack but really it was just a way to ensure car dependence and sell more of them and everything associated with them. And sell subsidised housing to whites in the process. This is all well documented. The irony is they do really badly in disasters with days of lead up. Fancy trying to evacuate a city in the 15 minutes a nuclear attack would take.

[@lmvr127]

I too hope us Americans can stop importing and buying cars from Germany and Italy

[@jonathanchester5916]

Frankly, the Champs-Élysées would be better as a tram-way and totally closed to through traffic by car. Keep a couple traffic lanes open for delivery, taxi/uber/buses, sanitary and emergency services etc. to access.

[@rebjorn79]

Absolutely, that would be ideal. However, if you take a look at La Rambla in Barcelona, there's traffic there running along the sides, but it's somewhat limited and the walking street runs down the middle. Because of the vegetation and the wide middle lane with all its restaurants and installations it's still a very attractive space.

[@Simon-.-]

un tramway sur les champs élysées ? des files électriques au milieu de la ville ? es tu devenu fou ? ça serait abominable… heureusement que tu n’es pas urbaniste !

[@grandhomme4183]

Les tramways Parisiens n'ont pas de cables. @@Simon-.-

[@grandhomme4183]

Mais bien sûr t'es pas pas menteuse toi, on va se faire chier à prendre le tram pour aller à Louis Vuitton alors qu'on peut garer le Range juste devant

[@romaingillet2526]

@@Simon-.- on a des tramways sans câbles à Bordeaux, Orléans, Reims, Angers et Tours. Pourquoi pas à Paris ?

[@fredericoamigo]

Greener cities is super important. Glad to see that the car centric focus is somewhat in decline.

[@mkbijnaam8713]

yes and no , bigger part of the population is middel class working man . Not everyone is entiteld people need there cars for work and many more things not everyone lives in a bubble where they only take the biscle because they dont have to work in the harbour or something

[@Doug-rv3nr]

I lived in China for about 10 years, I have a new appreciation for greening cities.

[@ttvrs1059]

Fellow Frenchman living in Paris, and let me disappoint you: none of this will be ready for the Olympics... Both the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the Île-de-France region President Valéry Pécresse, have announced nothing would be ready. If you have the bad idea to come here during the OG during summer 2024, you'll be extremely hearthbroken nothing has actually been done

[@serbkebab2763]

Far too many Africans in Paris. I didn't interact with a single native Frenchman on my visit.

[@wai828]

@@serbkebab2763 Nobody cares.

[@bootstrapbill98]

​@serbkebab2763 that's capital cities for you 🤷‍♂️ only like two in three conversations you hear in london are in English, but that's what makes capital cities interesting

[@wai828]

@@bootstrapbill98 You should understand, most people like them never leave their mom's basement.

[@ttvrs1059]

@@serbkebab2763 You mustn't've tried hard then... Also, given France's History, it's normal that we have people from Africa here. Go be racist somewhere else pal!

[@user-vo9wd6tx6c]

I haven't been to Paris since 2014. I'd love to see it again, especially after these upgrades. Love from America 🇺🇸

[@Looking4En]

I hope you could return there, love from France!

[@lindafrazier8092]

Me too! ❤

[@edtravelbug]

Me too. It has been so many years since I visited Paris, and my yearly trips to Europe have been centered around key cities in Spain and Italy. These new projects in Paris have put it on my 2024 summer radar, and I have a feeling I might fall in love with Paris once again - ha. Fantastic work, and the Parisians deserve a world-class city like this.

[@vrom___vrom___7923]

Merci beaucoup ....

[@SyrianApostate]

It's shit. It looks like the setting for an apocalyptic movie

[@andyt8216]

Any plan to clean up Paris which will need to involve a cohesive effort to remove all the graffiti which greats you as you enter Paris on the Eurostar and also on the shabby RER from and to CDG. It’s just awful and what a bad impression my favourite city gives its new visitors

[@user-ue5bx8sp6r]

What a wonderful surprise coming across an amazing channel like this! I'm very impressed with the quality of the videos. I've been looking for a channel like this for ages. Congratulations for your work!

[@bernios3446]

Excellent video, hope to see the greener Paris ASAP.

[@Looking4En]

Thank you!

[@KyrilPG]

Great video with fantastic views! And quite exhaustive too. By the way, where did you find the footage of the M18's rolling stock shown at 7:55 ? I've never been able to find any real images of these trains yet. Only MR6V for M15. So I'm ecstatic seeing these for the first time! Just a little correction : the Grand Paris Express is not "extremely late" as following the events and world pandemonium of 2020, the government and Grand Paris authority (SGP) issued a new timeline, focusing on different deliveries first and better scheduling instead of rushing construction on the parts useful to the Olympics and delaying other parts. So, said parts of M16/M17 are rescheduled for delivery after the Olympics and right now the developments are on schedule. With M11 & M14's extensions set to open in spring 2024 as planned. (M11's extension is only a few months late and they decided against rushing it). RER E West is expected to open its first phase around the same time, including Porte Maillot and La Défense CNIT stations, possibly also Nanterre la Folie but that is to be confirmed. The rest of the extension to Mantes la Jolie will open later. M15's South section is set to open in Q4 2025, as it was planned in the new post-pandemic calendar. And phase 1 of M16/M17 in autumn 2026. On the other hand the new schedule brought forward other parts, like the central section of M18, now set to open in 2026, earlier than originally planned, and the rest of M16 plus the second phase of M17 in 2028. The recent announcement of a major milestone confirms this new calendar : over 100 kilometers of tunnels have been dug so far on the GPE, out of about 180km in tunnels. The SGP also announced on September 3rd 2023 that more than half of M17's path has already been built. 15km of tunnels built, out of a 26.5km route ; 11.5km to go, of which 5.5km are either running on the surface or elevated, so only 6km of tunnels remain to be built on M17. That's 15km of continuous tunnels from Saint-Denis to Gonesse, far beyond the point that was of use for the Olympics. The Verdun and Roland shafts plus the tunnels linking them and forming the branching between M16 & M17 were completed in November 2022. While in July 2023, there were only 650 meters left to dig on M18's Eastern underground section (between Orly and Palaiseau where the line transitions to elevated tracks). It should be finished digging very soon, if it hasn't already. The main delays *not* due to the pandemic mess were caused by the terrible soil in Paris underground, namely the North extension of M12 (not part of GPE) and a small part of M14 Northern extension, as they required the ground to be hard frozen with cold generation factories and extensive circuit piping. A section on M14's North extension even suffered a flood that delayed construction, due to thiese terrible soil conditions. If the calendar had not been reorganized, the M16/M17 section planned for the Olympics would have been delivered only a few months after the event, which is only a mild delay. Instead, they are now expecting a much larger section to be delivered ahead of the previous schedule for such section. The main heavy duty building works left to do are M15's Western and Eastern sections. They are expected to start building and digging soon. As of October 2023: 100km dug, 27 TBM's have finished digging, only 2 TBM's still digging and nearly 65km of double track are already laid. The second phase of massive simultaneous digging is expected to start in 2024. I couldn't be more excited and eager about all this! The whole undertaking is so interesting.

[@lioneldemun6033]

Who is paying for this pharaonic endeavour?

[@KyrilPG]

@lioneldemun6033 Which pharaonic endeavor? The Grand Paris Express? The region and its inhabitants mostly, with a small investment from the state. Why do you ask? And more importantly, would you ask about that if it was a highway project? It's a necessity to improve mobility in Paris while respecting the lower emissions goal. Especially for suburbs to suburbs journeys. The current network is saturated and a number of journeys are inefficient, requiring going through the center and then backtracking to reach the destination. It will help bring the network's capacity to the daily 20 million trips mark.

[@lioneldemun6033]

@@KyrilPG ....with exploding taxes! Paid by the pressured middle classes ....

[@cheem-creem3622]

Most of these plans aren't gonna be ready by the Olympics if ever :/

[@charliechalk]

Believe!

[@nutrientdensepermaculture9391]

Extremely well done video

[@donnyestee]

I can't find any source for the claim that only 82 people live on the Champs Élysées. If someone else can; I am interested in reading about it.

[@maneeshpardeshi4032]

Paris is too crowded and lot of loitering around eifel tower area. And correct , it does not have enough trees. But a great place to visit. See you soon Paris

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

1 / 3 building is empty, no one can live here... but hey...

[@pierremozgawa4560]

Very good summary !! It could be interesting to make another video after the olympic games or in 2026 to check the progress…

[@european-one]

The lack of green space was one of the things I really didn't like about paris. Good to see they want to do something about it. Though this is a multi decade project of they want any meaningful level of re-greening. Rather than just a few spots popular with tourists

[@bogdanmihailescu9862]

Paris is one of the dirtiest European capitals I've been too: urine smell in the metro, tons of rubbish on the streets, really deplorable experience.

[@samplautz5586]

It’s kind of ironic that with the new railways, the “Official line of the Olympics” isn’t going to be open in time for the games

[@akluffydan]

Does anyone know how far has this progressed? Olympics are in 5 months

[@sebastientumahai9560]

Amazing concept. But one thing I’m curious about is how are they going to continue this design on the side streets.

[@hifolks7877]

As i heard , Paris has very dangerous places (especially around the Eiffel) and pickpocketing, racketeering etc... Is it true or nah?

[@MrBabyBlue1993]

I felt pretty safe but yes There is some pickpockets

[@Simon-.-]

its not more dangerous than any other global cities, you have bad places but but it's still sporadic and you really have to be unlucky to be bothered

[@baark999]

I agree with Simon - it is no more dangerous than other cities its size and considerably less dangerous than most american cities.

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

every year, the number of overdoses is multiplied by at least three. But don't worry, the city will be empty for the JO

[@martynasdereskevicius6089]

first of all, paris needs to clean itself, every 50 meters you walk, you can smell pee, homeless people everywhere, trash... trash everywhere.. especialy in outer part of city

[@vorong2ru]

agree, making the city clean and safe should be a priority

[@IIITheSTpiLotIII]

You can't clean it, when it's full of third world people with third world manners... They are spending billions on all of this, while letting even more people who don't give a Fuck about anything. Drugs, aggressions on the streets, animal behavior, trash... That's what never kept in mind with all of these MODERN HITECH sketches...

[@duckface81]

and more social housing so people arent homeless

[@jonathanchester5916]

It's the only city where we saw a "gentleman" pooping on the steps in the metro. Pooping!

[@roccobierman4985]

It's the non French migrants.....

[@oupwo7468]

People PLEASE go to Paris for the Olympic. I am french, and from an insider pov, going there will surely not fail to give you one of the BEST views of insane failure : stabbings rising as well as violent crimes since Paris is becoming a shithole, all lead by the incompetent hand of Anne Hidalgo.

[@lm_b5080]

mais c'est un grand opportunité pour le pick-pocket!!

[@oupwo7468]

@@lm_b5080 Les pauvres, ils vont être déportés dans la France périphérique :( plus de bar à chicha juste à côté, moins de squat, moins de barres d'immeubles immondes

[@lm_b5080]

@@oupwo7468 déportés?? c'est ne pas la Chine! où sont les droits de l'homme??

[@oupwo7468]

@@lm_b5080 Oui pardon ! On va mettre en place des "réseaux d'aide et déplacement pour la transition de la précarité"

[@VectirR6]

lovely video

[@Looking4En]

Thx!

[@AntonandSinan]

Champs-Elysées attracts 250000 tourists, while us locals avoid it as much as possible.

[@dwdei8815]

It's very impressive but why the insistence on identikit terraces along the Champs Elysées?

[@chrislomon9761]

Bravo! your video is accurate. I have lived in Paris for 30 years. Escaped from it ten years ago. Paris is finally struggling to be less agressive and obnoxious…. Greener, friendlier… that is the least we can expect…. When your average coffee cup is 4 to 8 euros… with ungrateful waiters who despise you even if you tip generously… Now living in Marseille… way more comfortable. Messy but human. I barely travel to Paris, but can’t skip huge amazing exhibitions and concerts and visiting friends. Would not live there anymore, even for a Million $ a year. Thanks again for the description of a possible future of the so called city of light/s

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

Je ne savais pas que les travaux pour les JO dans les arrondissements des riches allaient coûter plus que le gain prévu pour la réforme des retraites, de l'assurance chômage, et l'augmentation des tarifs edf combinés.... génial... faire des trous et planter des marroniers à 10 euros en pépinière, 44 milliards...

[@steven20919]

The Champs-Élysées is the most sucking street in the entire of Paris, its nearly impossible to walk through on a sunny day. Theres too many people

[@eziio3]

I wish the American Government had this type of logic, we've been on a constant downward spiral and we need something good like this to fix our disastrous urban planning

[@Insomniac_tv]

Gonna be a massive tent city after

[@marcelpavlik7976]

2:46 that construction reminds me a little bit Sodoshopa from South Park episode :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[@JFLehr]

That guy's haircut @ 10:35 lol

[@Nom-rs5bj]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@keittomaster]

Imagine if you just kept the city clean on a daily basis so that you wouldn’t have to spend more than 40 billions of tax payer money to clean it up…

[@krispykruzer]

Will Paris do anything about the huge number of pickpockets?

[@pierren___]

Leftist gov will not

[@ramon475]

Every major city has this, I don't see how you can effectively stop this

[@avina84]

@@ramon475 Not every major city only left governing cities.

[@wheatley1866]

@@avina84 most cities are left governing

[@jonathanchester5916]

@@ramon475 What pickpockets? Not true at all. What Paris does have as a local specialty are romany gypsies who work in gangs around the Eifel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. "sir, sir, did you just drop this ring?"

[@saranbhatia8809]

Way to go 👍

[@liamcollinson5695]

Why do countries only bother with sorting problems out just for big events like the Olympics almost as if they care more what foreigners think then the people who actually live there

[@vivalaleta]

Because capitalism. Money is what matters to those in power, not the needs of the people.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

5:52 So _that's_ what E means in e-coli. Bless you.

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

O_O so, we destroyed the retirement sytem because of "a 12 Billion hole in the budget", then the unemployment insurance, same amount, the gov tells us "hey, we WILL lack 12 bn more", and we are going to spent MORE MONEY to prepare 4 DAYS of games and give to the richiest people in the country some parks ? This is awful.

[@AdamBurianek92]

Hey, is Biffa narrator of the video? #CitiesSkylines

[@Freiheit1232]

I hope all cities will strive for this. It may take a decade but we’d all be better served with places like this.

[@NATO94]

I was just there, there's no construction along the Champs-Elysees, this ain't gonna happen.

[@analuciaperez9685]

Was there last week. Still nothing

[@almeidacheang7853]

bom trabalho amigo,Curitiba

[@user-fz7sq3vu2f]

Thank God for the Olympics.. Only reason for the change..

[@borja6436]

nothing has been made , lol , dumb video

[@shruthihs8343]

Surprising is was it really required to fund if it was made strict

[@tantaihuynh1509]

Very well documented and explained video !

[@Looking4En]

Thanks!

[@morris8165]

7:57 "Almost 68 station", wdym almost? Lmao

[@synkaan2167]

4 lines will be too late and there will be major issue with transportation

[@metal87power]

Each city expanding just for the Olympics lost more than they gained. unfinished or useless infrastructure, great financial debt, etc.

[@alexandrejassoud3123]

Doesn't mater the mayor is socialist so even without the Olypics Paris will be under huge debt.

[@Simon-.-]

all of this has nothing to do with the OG, its just vital for parisians and paris

[@estebantia2413]

Indeed.

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

@@Simon-.-what would have been vital for ALL the frenchs would have been to reduce the cost of this nonsense by 12 B and let them have a retirement. Oh, but we had to be cautious with the country's money...

[@mwarnas]

Has someone told the half a million homeless people sleeping rough or in cars all over the city?

[@panorama4526]

They should start by removing the criminal gangs from the Champs-Élysées. Even the French police goes there in teams of at least eight. The area around Sacré-Cœur isn´t any better. After this a greener city is an option. But I think this is only PR. I wanted to see the Olympics live, but there are to many safety problems in this city.

[@vivalaleta]

Outstanding. I hope other big cities copy these plans.

[@miriammaldonado7296]

Paris it's a magnificent city for it's culture mainly for the history., all sports related are looking forward or have worked very hard for this upcoming event, The Olympics. #Looking4(En) #The44BN #PlantoCleanUpParisBeforetheOlympics #Paris #SummerOlypimcs #2024 #2024USA❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@rklmbd2934]

The charming, romantic city of the 20th century that people still associate with Paris is simply a thing of the past. I lived for five years in Paris as a young adult in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Going back again last year what struck me most is how incredibly crowded and congested it has become. And how seedy the tourist areas are, there is very little Parisian character to be found around St. Michel or the Champs Elysees or Montmarte etc. There's no turning back the clock on this, best accept that Paris is a different city now. It may well remain a premier European destination, it will have to work to remain elegant as a defining trait and not as a luxury reserved to only the most affluent. The best version of its future will be as a densely populated, bustling, high-tech megapolis . Its worst will be urban sprawl and bloat and balkanisation into neighbourhoods that become insular and evolve independently from each other and at varying pace.

[@ROForeverMan]

In the 1980s all buildings were black-dirty, now they are white-clean.

[@silviaalexandrecordeiro8400]

⭐🌎🌍🌏😎Muito sucesso e que a PAZ representada pelos ESPORTES dure muitos séculos na Humanidade. Para cada pessoa que participa desse projeto, muitas felicidades bençãos de Deus todos os dias. 😎🌎🌍🌏⭐

[@ez4039]

What an insane waste of public money. You can’t force people to ride bicycles. ESPECIALLY when the city is so spread out because another dumb law doesn’t allow buildings above 5 stories

[@nicholaskoscinski5517]

I visit Paris from time to time and I really love the city, however the infrastructure, especially the metro system is extremely outdated, old and dirty, also getting in and out of stations is terrible for strollers, and wheelchairs, lifts are rare, often difficult to locate, don't always go all the way up, or are out of order. Generally speaking many European countries have this issue, since our cities are old and have insane amounts of legislative hurdles standing in the way of progress. When I lived in China the subway was an absolute delight, always clean, safe, very spacious stations with all types of accessibility. The ease and comfort of public transport in China is something I really miss in Europe.

[@lours6993]

If you think the quality of life is better in China….

[@olivier.m9415]

You are forgetting that Chinese Subway systems are much much more recent and unlike Paris, most of them aren't going throu shitty geology too. As for cleanliness, I totally agree that We could do better in Paris but you have to keep in mind the very low wages of the cleaning staffs in China. So all in all it is unfair to compare Paris with most of chinese subways ( especially the newer ones like in Shenzhen). However, one thing we could do is... having real AC systems in the train cars.

[@olivier.m9415]

@@lours6993 honestly, I'm french and lived in China for 8 yrs. The quality of life for an expat (albeit white) is really good and very convenient.

[@lours6993]

@@olivier.m9415 'Very convenient'.... Hmm. Do you value Liberté ? Try exercising your 'freedom of speech' to criticise anything or suggest how things might be done better and then we'll talk. An Australian writer and citizen of Chinese origin was arrested in China some time ago. He has just this week been sentence to death (with stay of execution).

[@olivier.m9415]

@@lours6993 Ive talked with many locals about China, it's recent history and also the wrong doings of Chinese gov, many Chinese agreed with me, some didn't and we had debates about these topics. Don't mistake the local population with people who have a public voice. I also never said that china was perfect, far from it, that's why I'm back but I don't want people to imagine wrong things about life there.

[@Supe658]

They should build beautiful classical Architecture

[@chris23tg]

Hopefully the bedbug problem is sorted also 👍

[@rodrigosouto9502]

Loved the part about green parks!

[@stephengneri2136]

I really really feel sorry for anyone that has to use the Seine during the Olympics. not a good idea.

[@NS-ln7tf]

Will they kick out migrants as well?

[@Sleeps_End]

Yeah, lets make Paris nice for the Olympics. Instead of, you know, spending that money on things people outside the city need, yeah fuck the rest of the country. 44 billion. Wow.

[@solesurvivor1142]

Ive been there I cant imagine it to be clean tho

[@patryk31]

It will be hard to do without removing all these engineers and doctors

[@razorwireclouds5708]

Or British tourists who litter and piss everywhere.

[@Hypersonic-es6vh]

To be honest London could learn a lot from Paris !

[@constance9074]

Really not. Everything shown in this video is just plans and speculation, a Virtual Reality made possible by AI, but has nothing to do with the realities of Paris. As a French person who grew up in London I am very familiar with both cities and London is, for the most part, clean and safe. Two things that Paris can only dream of. A major factor that contributes to this is the presence of CCTV cameras everywhere in London and a certain efficiency of law and order, (Bus drivers wouldn’t even let me on a bus as a schoolgirl if my Oyster card beeped red) contrary to Paris where the reigning feeling is one of rule-breaking and anarchy. There might be cameras here and there but there’s no one watching them, and if there is, he’s probably asleep. Another undeniable factor is the level of discipline of the population; the English tend to follow rules and the French tend to break/test them. Both of these have pros and cons but it results in London, being a civilised city, where people behave in a civilised fashion. No one is freely aggressive, or insulting each other for no reason, no matter how stressed. On the other hand, Paris basks in a chaotic, frenzied, lawless atmosphere that makes people think that because they are stressed or in a rush, basic common decency and respect do not apply. It is ‘survival of the fittest’ and lord help anyone who stands in your way or dare breathe your air. Also people are just downright rude. As a woman I can tell you that some parts of Paris are scarily unsafe, and as a woman travelling alone, there are some parts you do not venture. There have been scandals of girls raped in the RER (a sort of overground) and those women are not only scarred for life, but have never received any sort of justice or efforts at catching their attackers. That sort of thing would NEVER fly in London (thank you CCTV). Also, all of paris’ underground network smells like urine (I challenge you to find a station that doesn’t) and is disgustingly dirty and littered, just like the streets. Additionally, London has 4880 acres of parks that make the city green and liveable, and pleasant for anyone who has a dog (and for the doggo himself!) or is a runner, or wants a green space to spend time with their children or simply breathe and decompress. London may be extremely expensive but for a city of that size, the infrastructure is astoundingly well-maintained, and the city is extremely clean, safe and liveable. The city pays street-sweepers to pick up litter and keep our streets clean. The streets are lined with trees and pleasant to walk down, and you will find green spaces everywhere you look. As a woman coming home even late into the night (thank you Night Tube) I have never felt unsafe travelling alone, and in case there is someone making me uncomfortable there are TFL workers in every station whose job it is to monitor that kind of thing and help keep people safe. I would go back to living in London in a heartbeat, whereas I avoid Paris like the plague.

[@Like-23]

It’s just in videos. Reality France is not more France. You feel same like uk . Lots Muslim it feel like you Arab

[@Like-23]

@@Hypersonic-es6vh it’s not more Europe . It’s Islamic country. Allah is great 👍🏻

[@gokkiyoutube]

Remove the cars from it, give it a single free tram line and let people walk/cycle all over it.

[@matsta177]

Bahahaha I would not want to be a swimmer in this coming Olympics

[@cardinal_thrill5]

Not sure about the river thing.. Are they really gonna just keep pumping acid into it to kill off germs? Either address the actual source of pollution or don’t swim?

[@maelmountassir]

Olympics are in 5 months now and none of these programs will be done by this time, some of them haven't even started or just got canceled smh...

[@sebastianruhland5198]

yeah i was thinking "Wait the olympics are in a couple of months."

[@Arkansya]

only 82 ppl live on champs Elysées because most buildings are luxury shops and embassies...

[@rodrigosouto9502]

Insanely ambitious... Is this really viable?

[@Ford_wardrobe]

Anyone else pick up that 0:51 it states that the Champs Élysées attracts 250,000 tourists everyday, but yet at 1:02 it states it 1.5 million a year ....

[@Looking4En]

The « Monument », not the Champs Élysées

[@maximilian.buelowius]

Ah forbidding high rise for ... reasons; very smart.

[@cannyexplorer5357]

It all well and good changing these cities but unless you make it easier for all citizens and visitors alike including those who have mobility and sight issues then it become an no go area for those not perfect as I was once called. Any disability in any age should not be downgraded we all people with feelings.

[@ikmarchini]

In Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympics they promised to add a new rail line to CDG Airort. As soon as they won the games they dropped the project. As for the Tour Montparnasse, which was built by corrupt chicanery, the sooner they tear it down the better. The joke in Paris: Where is the best view. Top of the Tour Montparnasse. Why? Because you don't see the Tour Montparnasse. Belongs in Fresno.

[@m3dm491]

What you are talking about were never an actual new line. That was just an express line made by reusing existing and somehow adapted rails. But several problems would occur : - it would have concurrence the metro (planned) + the rer (existing) to the airport - that would have mean less trains on the lines B and D : impossible because they are overcrowded - it would have been expensive to compensate the cost and the question would be if people would actually use it. It was nicknamed « the line of the wealthy »

[@m3dm491]

And the tour Montparnasse, well I think most of people like it , and the ones who don’t approve the new project because it will make it nice looking

[@danieljordanoff6713]

Тези работи въобще няма да станат... освен за велисипеди, защото населението няма пари да поддръжа автомобили.

[@sydneylens]

$400.000 for the awning? You can get those at Bunnings for a few hundred dollars.

[@hammalamiri12]

Firstly what you can buy domestically it’s not the same as professional, also it’s more like a tax for the cafes / restaurants there and believe me they will recoup that money in a couple of months

[@derschraubenkopf8923]

"most beautiful avenue"? with cars passing by? come on!

[@jasonzervos]

It took me way too long to make the connection between Paris' massive renovation and urban redesign with the 2024 Olympics.

[@Ilovethebush]

sounds like an old Roman ‘entertain the people’ distraction, during protests

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Let them eat cake

[@markrichards6863]

Stepping in dog poop is a time honored French tradition.

[@kezicss]

0:50 A street is visited by 250k tourists a DAY, 1:00 The monument at the of this street is visited by 1.5Million people a YEAR. Something is not adding up here buddy.

[@BubbleMix-96]

why for the Olympics

[@thelegend2776]

Hidalgo is my personal hero. I admire her efforts in urbanism. I wish we had an Hidalgo in Buenos Aires. We have similar issues and the city is just very similar to Paris in general. If we had someone with this mucha mbition we could truly hold the "Paris of South America" title with pride.

[@user-hv7um4do3w]

First, hidalgo is not in charge for the J.O., we havea dedicated minister. Second, everybody here HATE this politic, take her, you're welcome, we'll pay Third, go try live in paris before telling so stupid things.

[@john-sebastianbarrera1884]

Buenos Aires is full of slums and poverty. Never compare it with Paris.

[@fantastiskchow8830]

I wonder where that money went thought lol . Cos I did not see any difference

[@FliVids]

I....dont think it will be like this. From a simple mans point of view half of what was said in this video exceeds the 2024 olympics. It's all too late

[@georgen9755]

Am i to believe that this narrotor is from gomez ????

[@beepcode3980]

Love the narrators speaking voice! If it’s AI, then they have perfected it. If not, make sure you keep using him!

[@shingshongshamalama]

I can tell them one real easy way to improve the biggest central street in Paris. Ban cars.

[@fabiosantos7763]

so the city will be more expensive for ppl that live there, right? it seems it will become a city for tourist 🤦‍♂🤷‍♂

[@dc6502]

Be real if you live in the centere of Paris (not suburbs) you're at the very least high middle class. At that stage money is not your concern.

[@fabiosantos7763]

@@dc6502 but people work and have fun at the city center...

[@roccobierman4985]

The gigantic population of non French migrants is what's keeping the city so dirty.

[@moanguspickard249]

Triangle skyscraper is ugly af in its out of place look

[@jumbolarge108]

9:40 “Out of touch with the surroundings” = French NIMBYs

[@tobias7548]

i think first they should do sth against the city smelling like pee and shit

[@elriano1]

Paris will never reach what it was 20 years ago because it's the people that have changed, not the city. Building expensive infrastructure is simply painting over the cracks of homelessness, littering and crime perpetrated by immigrants. People in Europe love going to Prague, Sofia and Krackov because these are cities that still have their culture and none of the problems of big cities like London and Paris. It's the people that make a beautiful city.

[@DarkChaosMC]

I cant tel if this is AI garbage or not

[@BrendanRiley]

It’s shocking Paris doesn’t have escalators or elevators in many subway stations.

[@Simon-.-]

they are elevators in most of subway stations… and a bit of sport wont hurt you

[@jacqueline23788]

mike heard that.....ignorant on the web

[@davethatcher4954]

My everlasting memory of Paris was when visiting in the late 1960's, where Men were openly pissing in the streets . I hear not much has changed, and it is still going on!

[@ENGBriseB]

It looks beautiful but the streets are very dirty and too much shit graffiti.

[@MoonlightSonata214]

I can't imagine how they're going to have all of these plans and upgrades completed in time for the Olympics. Some of them, like extending or making new train lines, take YEARS.

[@ZachGrant23]

nothing takes YEARS if you have the MONEY

[@daraghmcquaid3277]

They've been doing for years

[@estebantia2413]

Indeed, Im in Paris, and NOTHING will be ready. YEARS late. And that's when they have started things. Many of the projects have been scrapped alltogether, never started. Bunch of lies from the mayor to get elected.