#Paris has new Mayor!
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#Paris has new Mayor! Emmanuel Grégoire is an environmentalist who rode to his City Hall inauguration on bikeshare.
Change in last decade, thanks to his predecessor: 100s of school streets closed to cars; Seine clean enough to swim in; more trips by bike than car.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/
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#Paris has new Mayor! Emmanuel Grégoire is an environmentalist who rode to his City Hall inauguration on bikeshare.
Change in last decade, thanks to his predecessor: 100s of school streets closed to cars; Seine clean enough to swim in; more trips by bike than car.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/
Cyclists use a bike lane on a section of Rue de Rivoli that had been converted to accommodate bike and bus traffic only.
Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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#Paris has new Mayor! Emmanuel Grégoire is an environmentalist who rode to his City Hall inauguration on bikeshare.
Change in last decade, thanks to his predecessor: 100s of school streets closed to cars; Seine clean enough to swim in; more trips by bike than car.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/
With his predecessor, Grégoire insulated fellow citizens from oil shocks by pursuing walkability, and building bike networks and the new electric-powered supermétro.
This is the way forward: independence from a corrupt fossil-fuel system.
More in this week's High Speed newsletter:
https://www.highspeed.blog/pariss-bicycle-mayor-and-the-hormuz-shock/
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