Will this be the first European city to ban cars? - BBC REEL

After centuries of being remodelled by pandemics, Paris could become one of the first major cities to seriously limit the use of cars. The city is even making plans for a new '15-minute city'.
Video by Eleonore Voisard
#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews

[@coda-n6u]

You dont need to ban cars to get this effect, you just need to reclaim urban space *from* them. Narrow some roads, pedestrianize others. Create dedicated, two lane bike paths. Limit opportunities for confrontation between cars, bikes, and pedestrians. Create ring roads, super blocks, tram systems. You may not achieve 15 minute city everywhere, but that doesnt matter. All tyat matters is you strive to do better. That starts by taking space back from cars

[@Riyoshi000]

Also the argument the guy in the video made is completely stupid “what about services that need large deliveries like a carpet shop” lmao you can ban private cars and keep service vehicles (yeah including taxis, maybe) operating… seems like he didn’t think of that…

[@gurrierpl]

Remove the parking spaces, most importantly

[@DrJams]

London was planning on creating the ring ways but that plan was scrapped. The roads would have been much better with them

[@d.p.2680]

Need to move away from infrastructure to move cars, to infrastructure to move people, it works in the Netherlands, it would work even better in Paris becouse you allready have a nice Metro and many local shops, and if you want a carpet, or furniture, you just get it delivered at night, by electric van, cars are perfect transport outside the city, inside it's allways just been a problem

[@juancappadocio6311]

The Dutch use cargo bikes too

[@KRYMauL]

@@juancappadocio6311 Amazon, Fedex, DHL, UPS, etc. aren't using cargo bikes to transport their stuff. For the most part they use Sprinter vans.

[@grassytramtracks]

@@KRYMauL while you wouldn't use a cargo bike for lots of really big things, one can be useful for things that are quite big

[@KRYMauL]

@@grassytramtracks They aren't just bringing one package to your door, mate.

[@grassytramtracks]

@@KRYMauL yes, you can't ban commercial vehicles from cities, but if you go to a big shop for 1 somewhat big thing a cargo bike can be useful. The comment wasn't really about deliveries, sorry if it wasn't very clear

[@DecinergyAt]

Look at Vienna, there is the plan in october at the vote (and the 15min is there the standard!) ... - sooo, who is the first 😉✌🏻🇪🇺

[@pedrkbts]

0:40 Just don't.

[@Jake.03-g3k]

What are those towers

[@TheSpecialJ11]

This is Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin levels bad.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

Apparently the car supporters in this video have never heard of delivery vehicles. Go to the carpet store that has carpets on display, not necessarily in stock pick one out, have it delivered to your home from the warehouse at the edge of the city at a low traffic time of day. Places that have "banned" cars still allow delivery vehicles at certain hours, typically before 10 am, or during work hours between morning rush hour and lunch. And with no private vehicles, delivery vehicles move unimpeded and can unload on the side of the street without blocking traffic, because pedestrians and cyclists easily maneuver around them.

[@KRYMauL]

I think they were seeing it as ultimatums. Obviously, commercial vehicles can't be banned because you need to use those to keep the city functioning as a city.

[@ten_tego_teges]

Heck, I'm reasonably confident that more people have furniture and appliances delivered after purchase than do it on their own.

[@DrJams]

Wait for Delivery? Or just use a car.

[@Katzelle3]

@@DrJams You would still have the same wait time Only difference being that you spend that wait time literally nowhere else but inside a car

[@titanicbigship]

@@DrJams na man walking and biking is better

[@randombobsmith8925]

Rome really needs to do the same. Beautiful city, horrendous fumes....

[@willy4170]

Milan as well

[@lonalxaia]

@@willy4170 careful what you wish for.

[@lavillenouvelle]

Definitely. They made some improvements in the city Center, but the rest of the city is a car-centric hell.

[@jileelmcdaniels7331]

Rome has always been like that, even in antiquity people talked about it's smell.

[@slc679]

I really doubt it would be Paris, Amsterdam is a more likely candidate

[@leighannmcauley9169]

They want to do it everywhere lol

[@CordeliaWagner]

Both at the same time would be even better.

[@silvasilvasilva]

For a major city like Paris, that would be bold.

[@martinn.6082]

Paris itself is relatively small. The surrounding metro area is what makes Paris large

[@aikighost]

expect major riots, again :)

[@CordeliaWagner]

The surrounding banlieus are a islamistic slum, but the inner city is already pretty walkable.

[@mapgar1479]

@@martinn.6082 Paris has two downtowns; an old downtown that we are all familiar with and a modern downtown both of which need to be free of charge or restriction for all drivers and transit users to use.

[@dezhull3311]

We're all for ne car zones but when governments ban and fine that's a different story

[@alanbstard4]

so we have a problem from mass immigration

[@catlerbatty]

Xenophobe alert

[@thewindchime6644]

You people should be ashamed of yourselves if you think this is a good idea, if you leave your 'assigned area' you will be punished for it. This is nothing more than an open prison

[@erifetim]

What are you talking about?

[@balleraap007]

Gov: no cars American: 🔫

[@hfcraft748]

Pretty sure Americans can accept that, just if the transit is ready and covers enough area

[@balleraap007]

@@hfcraft748 never

[@tribe5569]

@@hfcraft748it’s going to be a challenging transition - the oil, auto, and HOA lobbyists will throw millions into campaigns to sabotage transit-oriented development and mobilize suburban and rural voters against it. Glad that more folks are waking up to financial reality, cause it’ll take a grassroots movement to resist them.

[@jjlamook5551]

Ljubljana has been the first city in Europe to ban cars

[@groganatorgaming693]

Just what i was thinking

[@kevinlove4356]

First European city to ban cars? First off, these plans will not result in a car-free Paris. Secondly, Venice has been car-free for many years.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Venice has not many streets...

[@alwilson8891]

The first order of business is to make sure that council members, WEF members, EU members, US congress members, all politicians on all levels, have 24/7, all-year surveillance to make sure they follow all the Green Lockdown rules that they are foisting on everyone else. And let's see how willing they are to give up their glamorous, high carbon intensive lifestyles for the good of the planet and the environment. Put their lives on absolute, unrelenting, public display to lead the rest of us in the sacrifices that need to be made.

[@aikighost]

I feel that they should also have members of the public following them around shouting "SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" at them 24/7 until they BEG for forgiveness for their disgusting undemocratic ways.

[@NoirL.A.]

i, for one, am not the least bit optimistic about any of this. technologies change, fashions change, hairstyles change, human nature does not all i can realistically see coming out of this is an even wider gap between the haves and have-nots and yet more gentrification benefitting the top one percent.

[@CordeliaWagner]

I love the idea of carfree cities. Cars are a big scam.

[@Andrea-lj4jg]

First city to ban cars? 🤣 My city (Siena, Tuscany) banned cars from the city center (i.e. everything inside the city walls) back in 1965. Now cars can only get into a few zones right inside the city gates for load and unload stuff only

[@mapgar1479]

That is because your downtown had streets that are too narrow to accomodate both cars and people unlike the wide boulevards and avenues of Paris with a few narrow streets in between.

[@greenmachine5600]

Wish New York could do the same

[@BayernFan05]

Alteast NYC is trying.

[@lonalxaia]

Prison city.

[@catlerbatty]

@@lonalxaia Boomers: This is literally prison! Reality: Can't step foot outside on the road cuz a car will run straight into you at mach 5 speeds and the driver will get away in court because it was an "accident"...

[@mapgar1479]

@@catlerbatty We conservative millenials don't like these North Korean Style 15 minute cities either. If you want to know the truth listen to Rush Limbaugh and he will educate you on how bad North Korea, socialism and communism are and why private property ownership and unlimited use of it is important.

[@catlerbatty]

@@mapgar1479 "if you want the truth listen to this specific conman lunatic I follow" bro do you even hear yourself right now. Youre trying to sell me on a scam except without any incentive to profits 😂

[@tlcforeveryoung3821]

When they ban vehicles in the U.S., I can retire!

[@torashuPanda781]

We just have to stop prioritizing cars. There are places where here in my city where you have sidewalks with like 60cm width and to make things better there are also eletric posts on the side walk so you literally have to squeeze between a wall and an eletric post if you don't want to walk on the road.

[@DrJams]

Without cars you'll be waiting for busses and trains being restricted to timetables

[@tribe5569]

@@DrJams in places with sufficient housing density, these services can run frequently enough that you do not have to worry about timetables. Better software for transit could also simplify trip planning.

[@sandeepajogoo2719]

Well that would also be the first place with majority of no pollution I think

[@BraveNewUs]

This isnt about our best interests and never has been

[@erifetim]

It's literally impossible to do something in everyone's interest. But if it affects the majority in a positive way, which long-term it does, we should strive for these solutions

[@Akuma_Raou]

If you liked this video without reading their rules you were lied to and mislead with clear mis-information, how so did they explain the rules, punishments, fines, limits to how far you can walk and bike, curfew, limit to car travel 100 times 1 year, which will be reduced to 25 times 1 year and you have to get a permit from the council, permits are also limted!

[@erifetim]

Wherever you get your information from, you're being lied to and mislead with clear mis-information.

[@catlerbatty]

Sounds like you're the one spreading misinformation. What a joke.

[@mabrukreza5456]

No car no movement new prison

[@catlerbatty]

Let me guess Driving = freedom right? Lunatic.

[@mabrukreza5456]

Sheep

[@catlerbatty]

@@mabrukreza5456 you the lion huh. Running over kids getting out of school very non sheep behaviour.

[@mabrukreza5456]

Is that a jock??running over a kid leaving school ?tell me you are jocking tell me please

[@catlerbatty]

@@mabrukreza5456 no jocks only truths in this department here.

[@mapgar1479]

I visited Paris and the air is completely fresh and cars had free aceess and the streets were easy to cross. No need to ban cars. Banning cars restricts mobility.

[@Akuma_Raou]

A post on twitter shows proof that people who live currently in 15 min cities were fined for leaving, they also noticed an increase in security cameras

[@willy4170]

“A post on Twitter” 🤦🏻🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Akuma_Raou]

@@willy4170 If you are unaware of Twitter's importance, allow me to enlighten you. All major media outlets, including KZbin, are subject to censorship; if I say anything else, my post will be removed. Look up how many people who questioned this agenda throughout the past two years lost their way of life.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Twitter like doung nothing against misinformation? I walk 15 minutes to the main station, why should I be kept from travelling around???

[@catlerbatty]

Bait

[@Akuma_Raou]

Writen By : Ida Alkin - Danish Politician, also a member of the World Economic Forum "I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better" "Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it againist me."

[@Lildizzle420]

I mean in the united states Amazon can delivery a rug to your house, I know it's not ideal for al this shipping but compared to owning a car you can buy a rug online like come on

[@ee-ef8qr]

It will make the rug shop in the city more accessible tho.

[@rig4365]

Why can't I see my rug in person?

[@adhamhmacconchobhair4407]

I'm from a village in Ireland and only visited Europe a few times, I went to Poland, Germany and Scotland. (Wrocław, Hamburg and Glasgow.) Wrocław was a paradise and had the freshest air I ever breathed and it was so green with no litter, Glasgow was so dull and their was a lack of greenery and openness, it felt like breathing petrol but seemed the same as Dublin and Hamburg was almost entirely litter free but the air was THE WORST I EVER INHALED!! Seriously hamburgs air 🤢.

[@letheas6175]

You should visit the Netherlands. Air is generally cleaner here since bicycling takes up a lot of kilometers people would otherwise travel by car. I think one of the easiest fixer for many of our urban and environmental problems are that there should be viable alternatives for short trips (the most commonly made trips when having to travel obviously) and bikes are just that (and more)

[@Paul__Allen]

Glasgow's one of the greenest cities in the UK and its far far from dull.

[@ysabellpp]

I’m from Wrocław and it’s one of the most polluted cities in Europe so your observations make zero sense. It’s unhealthy to be outside in Wrocław at times. Do your research

[@dsfhgsdth]

Bullshit

[@emsik185]

Instead changing cities build new ones as we need them and whoever wants to live in car free city will move there

[@gabriele7381]

How has Paris successfully contained the virus upon re-opening? It is one of the worst performing cities in Europe in terms of new cases right now.

[@mitchellmtb7202]

Zurich could easily ban cars

[@lonalxaia]

Guess who will carry on with the way things are. Peasants asking for car bans for them selves.

[@elias7748]

They should limit cars in cities. Stick with trolleys and busses. Perhaps horses and buggies?

[@BayernFan05]

Horse poop. Rather use trams.

[@balleraap007]

Ok stop driving

[@nuffaildaniaelle977]

Paris n Singapore can do it... It just in a matter of time

[@LC-hv1qn]

The best thing that ever happened to me was the day I got my licence and my first car.

[@marcbuisson2463]

No wonder if you live somewhere where you can't get a cafe or a piece of bread without jumping in a car. Man I would not have liked being dependant on my soccer mom. at 12 years old, it's fairly normal to hangout and explore a 100 000 inhabitants city if it's designed decently to make people feel safe inside.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Sorry you grew up very rural and had nothing going on. I lived rural too and needet a car to get to the clubs in big cities. But now I live in a big city to study and I haven't missed my car a single minute. And I save a lot of money.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Or your lived in car centered suburbia, which is my personal version of torture.

[@catlerbatty]

How bad was your life before a car damn

[@MariaFernandez-zc2ke]

In a city of 100,000 inhabitants like Pontevedra it is possible, in a great capital like Paris, which takes it as a model, it is more difficult.

[@safe-keeper1042]

Visited Oslo recently. It was delightful to walk downtown and experience a city centre of a (relatively:p) big city that is being reclaimed by people.

[@mapgar1479]

Actually it is being taken away from people by taking away their mobility . The people have lost space not reclaimed it.

[@oakblaze433]

​@@mapgar1479 exact opposite. They have more freedom to go anywhere they want now and are not slaves to automobiles. They can drive whenever they want, but they don't have to. That is true freedom.

[@mapgar1479]

​@@oakblaze433 Europeans were never slaves to automobiles unlike the United States. European Cities kept their transit sytems and improved upon them while also accomodating automobiles in a reasonable way. Sure a few urban freeways were built in the medieval city centres and can easily be converted to 4-6 lane complete street boulevards or demolished and replaced with a completely restored original city street grid.

[@raquellove5735]

Pontevedra city from Galicia.

[@nikkiboyer8971]

They will decide what people need. You will need to apply for permit to drive to another zone... lockdown.

[@thulekovish8188]

Interesting idea. Will the important officials in government ride their bikes or walk to their work place? Limit the use of cars can be done in sections of the city but not within the entire city.

[@cm4659]

horse and carriage 😌😂😂

[@benw3864]

I mean there's nothing stopping it from being banned city-wide. What are the possible rationales for needing a car in a city with good mass transit besides "I'm too lazy to walk!". The personal convince of a select few should not be considered when we're having these conversations. In all car-ban scenarios there would be exemptions to cargo & service personnel like construction who need to haul equipment and for the transportation of people with disabilities. Besides that, the reasons for really needing a car besides one's own selfishness are pretty few and far between.

[@caffreys1979]

@@benw3864 one of the dumbest things I've ever read in my life. Do u live in a bubble?

[@TheSpecialJ11]

@@benw3864 A fine example of this is many college campuses in America. The center of campus is off limits to vehicles, but service and emergency vehicles still have routes through. As for disabilities, I love what the Dutch have been pioneering with what's essentially a mobility scooter that's much safer and faster and fits in bike lanes. A "smart car" so small you can't call it a car and shouldn't treat it like one.

[@willy4170]

@@caffreys1979 why? Can you elaborate

[@gort9374]

giga based

[@DrJams]

No cars means being table dependant

[@tommim.1516]

Drones: The answer to everything

[@Sixles2]

I live in edmonton and there planning to do the same thing of course with no affiliation to france just the same name and plan

[@Akuma_Raou]

a 15 min ctiy means, you are within a district, that district will provide you limited options and resources, based on your needs which is decided by the goverment, your inquires go through your council, everything else you require is a permit that only the council can provide. Permits are limted. Rules and obligations are determined by the goverment. Your friends and families could be in a different district. You will not be able to visit them when you like, that is for the council to decide with a permit. You will not just be able to jump in your car and drive, because the distict is under surveillance and you would of registered your vehicle to them. You will be fined anytime you go beyong 15 mins as well etc... go read their rules and notice it also says in the future they will change it and reduce your right but they say " we don't remove rights we give them".

[@CordeliaWagner]

A conservative carfan. I live in a walkable neighborhood and I am living my best life walking around. Doesn't mean it will be locked down in the future to keep me in.

[@erifetim]

How many comments did you write? This is the third one I've come across. You need therapy.

[@catlerbatty]

I hate these old gullible idiots spreading lies on their facebook groups thinking they've "figured out" something diabolical. Yeah bro public transport oooo how scary 😱

[@mapgar1479]

@@CordeliaWagner They will restrict how many times you use your bike and take transit and passenger rail to places within the city as well. Banning cars is only the 1st step.

[@martinn.6082]

@@mapgar1479 they could just take away the gas and you're done.

[@thomasciarlariello]

dystopia

[@texasray5237]

No it won't.

[@espada9]

YOU are the carbon they want to reduce!

[@catlerbatty]

And not the dependence on oil. Sure bud.

[@alteriwnet5805]

Is doomsday

[@Hiro_Trevelyan]

It's not like trains existed or even bicycles that can move entire fridges or washing machines. Of course we can live without cars.

[@rig4365]

Nope

[@coolboy5428]

Antichrist

[@grahammewburn]

Make the centre of towns and cities pedestrians only. Slowly expand the area.

[@raphael5165]

*Bon. On commence quand ?*

[@lionel1966oyo]

Agenda 2021 !

[@AS898-h3u]

15 minute cities sound like a dream, I live in Lyon, France and I never use a car because the bike infrastructure is great and the public transport too. I think limiting personal car use to almost zero is great, less cars the better but any government cars (police etc), taxis and shipping trucks are important for safety and the city’s economy so no I don’t think banning cars completely is the answer like this video suggests it’s somewhere in between :)

[@Orion123-q6s]

No, the video does not suggest completely ban cars. It referring to only restricted times and lanes as per my understanding

[@jeffreyhawthornegoines8727]

Just like it was with Baron Haussman, the most important and real reason for all this is for the authorities to control the city and the people more efficiently. The reduction in cars will improve pollution but also confine the residents within the city by making going outside or it much more difficult

[@farhanibrahim5925]

banning cars completely is not a great idea, but making it the last option is great

[@balleraap007]

Hahaha 1776

[@rig4365]

Nope

[@CordeliaWagner]

Private cars like the cars that dumb agressive people need to feel powerfull.

[@samlee86421]

I bought a TV and I don’t have a car. How did I manage 🧐

[@shukracharya_]

This aged well 😂😂😂😂

[@obamalastname34]

Car to elaborate?

[@erifetim]

@@obamalastname34 Paris is still a bus-ling city

[@peacefarms5871]

Could be Inspiring...

[@armorbearer9702]

Paris can be like Japan and have rickshaw rides. Rickshaw rides would be perfect for those who do not want to bicycle around the city.

[@safe-keeper1042]

An excellent idea.

[@lonalxaia]

Guess who won't be participating? The ones at the top whilst the peasants think it's a good idea.

[@CordeliaWagner]

As if everyone in Japan uses Riskhas. Only uneducated underclass thinks that. Japanese people use public transportation. Or own cars.

[@catlerbatty]

@@lonalxaia "The ones at the top" made the unsafe hellhole of a climate that it is today. Responsible mayors and elected members are trying to fix these mistakes, usually seen biking around and using public transport.

[@witsuw]

Yuck

[@lw97nilslinuswhitewaterweb24]

I think urban areas need to be banned, not cars.

[@steve00alt70]

Thank god

[@ClayShentrup]

Ideally you'd have an accurate carbon tax rather than an outright car ban. Then you'd have maybe 1% of the current car traffic. It would only pencil out to use a delivery vehicle to bring your bed to your house. You wouldn't just get in a car and drive to get groceries. But the general mentality of "ban cars" seems very good to me. A few exceptions are reasonable.

[@benw3864]

I think going the route of a carbon tax is still not bold enough as you'd be surprised what people are willing to pay in that regard. A ban should be instituted in reality as a tax is just going to give rich people clear streets... In all car ban scenarios there are exemption passes anyways for utilities and various deliveries. It's a non-issue in reality as cargo deliveries, plumbers, electricians, etc. would have exemption permits.

[@DrJams]

People are switching to Electric cars. So don't worry too much about air quality

[@ClayShentrup]

@@DrJams electric cars still have significant particulate matter output, and get their energy from sources other than renewables which also cause pollution. Cause

[@DrJams]

@@benw3864 Why do you want to ban cars? Do you want to be timetable dependant and restricted to public transport?

[@DrJams]

@@ClayShentrup 'particulate matter' this can come from anything in a city. Does your home only use renewables? Depends on the source of energy.

[@whatislifebro]

1984.

[@mr.j997]

Just one question: How are taxi businesses going to survive and how are businesses going to get their daily deliveries when no trucks or cars are allowed? Hmmmm...

[@CordeliaWagner]

As if taxi is a thing in a few years. You can't deny progress to safe jobs. These taxi drivers van find new jobs. Like nursing old people in nurdery homes.

[@mr.j997]

@@CordeliaWagner Well then I wonder how emergency vehicles will make their way from point A to point B if every freaking road is blocked or closed. Hmmm I really wonder... Maybe we should have bikes instead with a giant water hose to put out a fire? Hahaha so stupid this whole idea.

[@RoSario-vb8ge]

@@CordeliaWagner ...because nursing old people can be done be unqualified, unmotivated persons...would you want to be with such in your elderly years or would you want your mom have that situation?

[@catlerbatty]

@@mr.j997 you really thought you had something there did you. Of course if you had just listened closely its about private automobiles not service vehicles...

[@bobthompsn2896]

Lol yeah I doubt that happens here. I’m not walking or biking to work in -50s

[@Pantsmode]

Paris banning cars will definitely not be possible, especially with the French automobile manufacturers being still around. And I'm sure they'd do anything to prevent that change from happening.

[@darrenn897]

In the future only the very rich will be able to have cars,its all in the plan

[@steve00alt70]

cars do nothing but pollute and cause congestion serves no purpose

[@steve00alt70]

@@darrenn897 no they wont have cars

[@latenightthinker4737]

they'll adapt to it. For example delivery of materials could soon be a thing for drones, someone will be needed to build those drones

[@josephsilva9403]

@@steve00alt70 you must not have a license lmao

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[@mistermood4164]

This isn’t the place to do this

[@cliffordishii3738]

Let's get radical by becoming and living as Biblical Christians.

[@catlerbatty]

"Radical" huh. Remind me where do you find drive-thru restaurants, ATMs and churches again? Not using your leg is what I call radical.

[@SeanLumly]

No, ban cars outright, and figure out how to do the rest.. Cars are a plague on society. Keep a handful of corridors open (and hidden -- eg. a trench) for service vehicles. Install better infrastructure that minimize the need for service vehicles, and lean in HARD on public transportation (with parking at the periphery). And with all the money you save on car infrastructure, and the cars themselves, subsidise the cost of the public transportation in the taxes that would have paid for the cars. Oh, and I've seen a person easily transporting a washing machine using a bicycle wagon. To suggest that services will not exist to move larger items is nonsensical.

[@TheCossack]

🤡😂

[@balleraap007]

So never get in a car again

[@catlerbatty]

@@balleraap007 dont need cars in a city. A city is called a city because everything is close by.

[@balleraap007]

@@catlerbatty I use a car cause I’m rich and I save time and I like driving fast I laugh at you

[@catlerbatty]

@@balleraap007 Driving fast kills people everyday actually. Rich people use bicycles in countries where it is safe and supported. As for saving time, good luck being stuck in traffic.

[@Evikeuklavier]

it's wild to see these europeans celebrating 15 minute cities.

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

why?

[@CordeliaWagner]

The car indzstry CEOs and oil-moslems want everything to stay as it is.

[@erifetim]

It's worth noting that this video comes from a time where the idea of a 15-minute-city wasn't taken by conspiracy theorists who spun its meaning in the most idiotic way possible

[@AS898-h3u]

Yeah having everything you could need at a 15 minute walking distance is so horrible 🤣go to Texas and enjoy wasting all your time driving from place to place

[@mapgar1479]

@@erifetim It is no conspiracy theory the city councils have said it themselves that they want the North Korean Model. Those who disagree like me will be either killed on the spot (like the soviets did when they implemented 15 munite cities) or be sent to labor camps where you are starved and overworked to death. Once the 15 minute cities are deployed they will ban poor people from eating meat (children can't survive without eating meat) with the intent to keep as many children from living to 12 yeas old as possible. Those who wish to kill or currupt children are the worst people of society.

[@latenightthinker4737]

You would then need to reshape automobiles a bit because they're essential to a city. I'm talking police cars, firetrucks, and ambulances. That or wait for drones to become viable replacements for them

[@mikewade777]

Service vehicles of different to private owner vehicles they are essential

[@VLCBK]

It was said in the video that delievery cars and service cars aren`t to be banned. That`s why at the end it was "Will cars be banned? Oui and Non"

[@grassytramtracks]

Those are not cars, and won't be banned

[@udishomer5852]

They are talking about banning private vehicles, not emergency vehicles or delivery vehicles.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Private cars. It's about private cars like small penis energy guys.

[@aditya_it_is]

Say no🚫

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

why?

[@catlerbatty]

He wants to run over people as much as he wants. And pollute like climate doesnt exist. His convenience trumps everything else. He is, a Motorist.

[@bobroberts7269]

Lol NO MORE CARS! LOL Works fine for about a week and then its like..... how do i move this dresser or couch with my bike? Lol Idiots

[@andreicorban316]

One of them has to start since they can't afford gas no mo.. The wef hipsters will love it! Carriages will be retro!

[@imienazwisko4219]

This "15 minute city" is how soviet cities were modelled ;) I think it's a brilliant idea

[@normieloser6969]

Grew up in one of them. If it's properly maintained it's great. Not without it's problems, but leaps ahead of living isolated and unable to go anywhere by foot in suburbs

[@outlawruby]

Soviet cities were designed pretty well. They were just maintained poorly as the Soviets lost power and wealth throughout their reign until they ultimately collapsed and most of the former soviet cities fell into disrepair.

[@imienazwisko4219]

@@normieloser6969 so did I and it was great :) but now I live in a British city that is 95% suburban sprawl that is completely car centric and it's awful.

[@normieloser6969]

@@imienazwisko4219 Yuck. And the inner city is too expensive?

[@imienazwisko4219]

@@normieloser6969 it's full of derelict cold small and rotting flats :/

[@obamalastname34]

Make europe great again!

[@noobsaibot5285]

Pure evil

[@nishiljaiswal2216]

cars are evil

[@martinheath5947]

It's going well isn't it. Ah the wonderful city of utopian vision 💩

[@briangitonga3606]

What about electric cars, the city should just go electric

[@cm4659]

No because its still bad, its been proven electric cars are actually worse

[@briangitonga3606]

@@cm4659 Where is the proof. Don't tell me Elon Musk is wasting his time with electric cars.

[@cm4659]

@@briangitonga3606 Scientists literally made a huge thing about the start of last year, google is free mate

[@viniciuslippel7251]

I don't know if electric cars are as bad as Yessir says, but they are definitely as dangerous as normal cars and occupy as much space to transport just a few percentage of people, being the most unsustainable type of traffic. Maybe this problems can be solved with self-driving cars, but even then, a city with more focus on pedestrians, cyclists and, in this case, self-driving public transit, will be way more sustainable

[@briangitonga3606]

@@viniciuslippel7251 Totally agree. Thanks on shedding light on the issue. Be blessed. 😊

[@pedropinheiroaugusto3220]

"You need your own car car to get a TV or a carpet" - Dutch: "hold my biére"

[@SeanLumly]

Exactly. That was a ridiculous statement. I've seen a bicycle transporting a washing machine. To suggest that people/services won't adapt is laughable.

[@nopelandfill]

So I need a car forever because I need it for one task? Have someone deliver it at night when people are asleep, problem solved!

[@Vorexia]

@@nopelandfill Any time on a weekday that isn't rush hour would be perfectly fine, honestly.

[@balleraap007]

How about when I want to travel the country on a whim? F urself

[@CordeliaWagner]

Everything can get delivered to your door and delivery vehicles are not private cars.

[@ansarhossain8383]

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[@Klimacollege-xe6zj]

To me, the results of the measures in Paris seem to show that limiting private car traffic "only a bit", with some new bike and bus lanes and pedestrian zones, does not really help. Pollution levels are unchanged or even go up, as car traffic congestion becomes even worse. The only solution is to do it like the Spanish city of Pontevedra, making the city basically car free except for deliveries and services. The argument that then certain types of business will move out of the city is void, as those mostly have moved to the city fringes or online already because of high inner city rents. We will see how it comes out in Paris. In Berlin, there is an citizen initiative with the same goal for the inner city, "Berlin Autofrei". It is not only about quality of living, but also about climate, with a car free city massively reducing CO2 emissions, and able to become a greener "sponge city" with more space available for trees.

[@sweendawg7274]

Obey

[@RoSario-vb8ge]

Will all the VIPs give up there luxurious life style, coming to their meetings with private jets, using big limousines...for climate's sake? The herd, that we are for them, should give up everything, because they are in fear for the resources couldn't last long enough for them and so they want to get the control.

[@nishiljaiswal2216]

Its not just about climate, cars simply ruin our cities and make the dangerous, loud, and simply unpleasant places.