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Paris Fell in Love With Escooters. Now It Might Ban Them
March 31, 2023/
Weaving through traffic and protests in the French capital shows that the real problem isn’t scooters—it’s cars.
Like many other cities in Europe, Paris is at a transition point. The current mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has been campaigning for fewer cars on the city’s streets. But to me, an escooter ban feels like the antithesis of that mission. It would be a victory for the automobile instead.
