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Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars (slrpnk.net)
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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

Originally post from biwook: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1kn7mb5/paris_pollution_after_they_added_bike_lanes_and/

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation

That wasn't an accident and it didn't just 'happen;' it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol'fashioned racism.

Some random sources to get folks started:

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

there's also the argument that pushing to distribute population centers away from cities forced the soviet union to manufacture larger and more numerous atomic weapons to maintain parity with US capabilities.

not in the "hey we want to save as many people" way it's portrayed, more like, let's make it harder for the sov's to equal the potential megadeaths we intended to dish out

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