New Fabric of Paris! A look at the changes coming this year for those who walk, cycle, wheel and drive.
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New Fabric of Paris! A look at the changes coming this year for those who walk, cycle, wheel and drive.
fabricofparis.com/2024/02/29/t...
Iβm in the lab with Neuralinkβs first patient. Theyβre just out of frame, moving a computer mouse with their mind
Saturday marked three years since I acquired French citizenship. I wrote a few words about how I slowly came to be able to say "I'm French" without feeling like a fraud.
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Sorry I missed this. They're saying it's coming this year. They're saying it's very special because no other European city has done it. But other European cities take contactless cards, which presumably includes Apple Pay?!
I wrote a thing about Paris's vote this weekend on an SUV parking measure. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/02/02/w...
New Fabric of Paris! I attempt to decrypt the complex array of transport tickets, consider the network's other sources of funding, and look at what's new in 2024. fabricofparis.com/2024/01/24/t...
Happy birthday!
Paris has also experimented with a number of ideas which didn't work β though some bore fruit in later projects. See my series on transport that never was: fabricofparis.com/collections/...
Paris's approach is nothing if not imaginative. Sometimes to a fault βthere are several different, incompatible typologies of tramway, for example
New Fabric of Paris! Our annual retrospective continues with a look at all the changes happening on the local public transport network. From trams, to the RER, to two huge metro extensions, there's a lot going on!
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Beautiful!
New Fabric of Paris! In the first part of an annual transport retrospective, we look at what's new in long-distance rail. fabricofparis.com/2024/01/09/t...
40! That's a pass!
It is deliberately difficult, tbf, even for people who live here
That's pretty good, I think
The second annual Fabric of Paris quiz: fabricofparis.com/2023/12/19/t...
Today, manufacturers make huge cars because there is more profit there. Whack an exponential tax on them based on weight and things should change. Coupled with safety regs that value the lives of those outside the vehicle as much as those inside
But tweaking parking prices in the urban core of one city won't do much to fix an industry-wide problem. What we need is much tougher regulations on manufacturers, on a supranational level
SUVs are party of a wider issue which is that cars are getting bigger and heavier generally. If this policy means cars that are big, but not huge by modern standards, have to pay more for non-residential parking in the centre of a city with excellent transit, I don't think that's a problem.
But that's still pretty big, no? How much does the battery weigh?
New Fabric of Paris! My thoughts on the city's upcoming vote on SUVs.
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Fabric of Paris turns 4 today. If you enjoy my posts about Paris but you've never clicked through to an article, why not help me celebrate by spending a few minutes on this anniversary edition?
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How things are named is one of my β and consequently, Fabric of Paris's β primary preoccupations. So writing this piece on how metro stations are named was a lot of fun. fabricofparis.com/2023/10/31/1...
I'm very fond! Going to Fleet Services as a kid meant I was on my way either to London or somewhere else exciting. And England does motorway service stations very well
What the actual
Even in Dorset and Hampshire that's more imagination than reality. Most of the population is urban, in and around Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth
Old Fabric of Paris! Reshared for Halloween: the unsettling history of Paris's depot of the dead.
fabricofparis.com/2021/10/30/death-in-paris-the-morgue
New Fabric of Paris! 16 things you might not know about the names of Paris metro stations.
fabricofparis.com/2023/10/31/16-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-names-of-Paris-metro-stations
This is a brilliant read from @fabricofparis.com: all about potatoes, how they became accepted in France, a man named Parmentier, and a Paris Metro station. fabricofparis.com/2023/07/18/p...