Getting Around Paris by cycling
Dedicated bike lanes, widened bus corridors, and Vélib‘ municipal bikes have made cycling in Paris a lot easier and accessible in the past few years. Most of the city is relatively flat and can be crossed in about 30 minutes on a bike in normal traffic, although if you’re heading to Montmartre, Belleville, or the Butte-aux-Cailles, you may want to check out the new electric bike options below.
Bike Lane Maps
The City of Paris‘ grand expansion plan for a city-wide network of bike lanes was finally completed in 2020, just in time for all of the Parisians who took to bikes during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid public transport. The biggest change was the transformation of Rue de Rivoli and the quays along the Canal St-Martin, now reserved exclusively for bikes, city busses, and taxis. Almost every major street now has bike lanes, and with all of the new cyclists, Paris is starting to look like Amsterdam or Copenhagen (with the bike lane bottlenecks at each intersection to go with it). The red lanes are “protected” from traffic with concrete barriers, while the blue lanes are shared with the cars (you’ll see bike symbols painted onto the street, but no dividers).(from Secret of Paris website)
Natural sounds of Paris Streets and people
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