How Paris's mayor helped the city breathe again
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The outgoing mayor made her city more cyclable, and more breathable
    • CactusEcho@piefed.socialEnglish
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      7 days ago

      One thing that these articles fail to mention is that the previous mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, was the one that put the ball rolling for the changes that hidalgo was able to do… So without him, Hidalgo wouldn’t have made the changes.

      But i wouldn’t call this omission a “pack of lies”. Anyway since I don’t follow french politics, can you tell what are the lies?

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    7 days ago

    “Public space in Paris is chaos,” right-winger Rachida Dati said recently

    No right winger is worth listening to. I know nothing about Dati, but I am confident they are full of bad ideas.

    Dati’s proposals for the city include making it cheaper to park and getting rid of the low-emission zone in the city centre.

    As foretold.

    Every right wing idea is bad, and people proposing them should at best be laughed out of the room.

    • Canaii@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Not every left-wing idea is great and not every right-wing idea is bad. It really depends.

      For instance, american red states have really dumb gun laws but they make it very easy to build housing.

          • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            7 days ago

            In the United States, it is.

            Dems in the US are conservatives, as Chris Hedges points out, they’d be centre right in Europe.

          • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            7 days ago

            Democrats aren’t especially left, so I’m not sure you can really look at states controlled by the democratic party as a fair comparison. The US doesn’t have much of a left. Many democrats are conservative, especially when its things close to home (eg: nimbyism, “i like black people i just don’t want to live next to one”, etc).

            We have outliers like Mayor Mamdani who want to build more housing, but he’s notably a DSA member. He does have policies for housing which are more effective than “fewer regulations and the market will solve it”.

            As such, if the argument is “Conservative controlled areas have fewer regulations, and thus more housing gets built”, that’s a very tenuous argument. The right wing ideology at play isn’t “We should build more housing” but rather the usual “No one tells me what to do” attitude endemic to right wing thinking.

            Furthermore, conservative areas tend to be sparser, which makes for more room to build, with fewer restrictions New York City is already dense. Adding more stuff is going to be more difficult and complicated than adding another building to Tumbleweeds, AR.

            Lastly, if you did somehow prove that “conservative solutions to the housing crisis are good, actually, and aren’t just deregulation and capitalist market solutions”, I guess I would have to update my statement to “Almost all right wing ideas are bad”. But as I’m not convinced this is the exception, I stand by my original claim.