Paris and cars represent 130 years of passionate and tumultuous relationships. Focus on the last 60 years, during which everything was first done to adapt the city to the car, with the construction of the ring road or the roads on the bank. It was the golden age of the automobile, a time that contrasts with the last two decades during which the car was asked to adapt to the city.
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Paris and the car is the story of two people who are infatuated with each other, but whose cohabitation quickly proves impossible. For motorists, there remains the memory of a golden age, that of the Pompidou years, when the city was asked to adapt to their needs.
Construction of the ring road, the tracks on the bank… The car then dreams ever bigger, even if it means taking all or almost all the rights. How can we explain this all-automobile madness? Interview with Mathieu Flonneau, historian specializing in mobility.
We will then focus on the twilight of this passionate relationship, when Paris decided to flirt with suitors that had long been rejected: bicycles, buses, trams gradually took over the roadway from the 2000s.
How far will this slow break between Paris and the automobile go, when now less than one trip in ten is made by car in the capital? And will the ring road be the next victim of this turnaround? This is what we will see with Nathalie Roseau, urban architect.
► See you this Saturday at 12:35 p.m. on France 3 Paris Île-de-France, or in replay on France.tv/idf.
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