Parisians are nice. Here’s proof.
Today, a quick tour up in Montreuil’s public parc with a beautiful panorama of Paris, some suburban backstreets, French smells, a green path and La Fayette.
00:00 Fontenay-sous-Bois — Butte Climbing
02:26 Montreuil — Parc des Beaumonts
06:24 Montreuil — High School Street
08:31 Montreuil — Downhill
10:30 Montreuil — Centre
12:38 Montreuil — West Montreuil Streets
18:05 Paris — Boulevard Davout
19:50 Paris — Rue de la Plaine
22:24 Paris — Boulevard Voltaire
24:00 Paris — Avenue Parmentier
27:23 Paris — Avenue de la République
29:31 Paris — Boulevard de Magenta
33:03 Paris — Rue La Fayette
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GoPro 11
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Triban/Van Rysel RC500
EDITING SOFTWARE
DaVinci Resolve
Pixelmator Pro
Audacity
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3 Comments
Je surnomme le Boulevard de Magenta "L'Enfer". Je hais tellement cette piste qu'il m'arrive régulièrement de faire des détours pour l'éviter, mention spéciale à la continuité Barbès dans le 18ème 🤢. (Surtout en journée, tard le soir et la nuit ça va)
D'ailleurs, passer du Boulevard de Magenta à rue Lafayette comme tu l'as fais, c'est comme passer d'un Vélib à plat à un Lapierre cadre carbone, la différence est frappante !
Rue La Fayette seems the best solution – muscle those cars away. The narrow green paths beside the pedestrian pathways seems a bad, and hopefully temporary, compromise.
I remember looking at Boulevard de Magenta in in 2010 when it was just recently reconstructed and thought 'wow! this is great!' 🙂 not that great after all these years.
Interestingly I also saw the contraflow lane on the sidewalk on Rue La Fayette being constructed (on another visit several years later). I thought it was kind of narrow back then and bound to create conflicts with pedestrians. It seems that since then the city has decided 'f*ck it! let's just take the whole car lane out and make a cycle path instead'.