13.4.17

No cars anymore...


The Seine banks are more and more given back to pedestrians, bikers…  Since a number of years, a large part of the right bank has been closed to car traffic during some summer weeks, “Paris Plages”. Instead of allowing the cars back by the end of last summer, it was decided to maintain a large part of the right river bank car-free, forever (?).  Not everybody is satisfied with this decision which has created some traffic jams elsewhere, but personally I’m happy – I have no car! I think rather that the ”wrong decision” was taken in the 1960’s, when the river banks were opened for traffic. There are now plans to make the banks even more attractive. Let’s see. (If you want to see some of my older posts about the Seine banks, you can click here, here and here.) 








4 comments:

Jeanie said...

I think Rick looks at your blog pretty regularly but I'm making sure he sees this one!

Shammickite said...

How wonderful, I would love to sit on the grass on a sunny afternoon and watch the Seine go slowly on its way.

claude said...

C'est bien mais à en croire certains, pas trop pour la circulation.

Studio at the Farm said...

I agree, Peter - I think closing the banks to traffic is a wonderful idea!

Kathryn