For a few years now, cars and public transport have been overtaken at full speed by scooters, scooters and electric bicycles.
Recognizable by their color - blue, red, mint water - and their acronym, these all-purpose devices or
"soft mobility"
, as the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo calls them, invade the network of the capital.
It must be said that the city, active, on the move, has always been the scene of experimentation.
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In 2018, a study by the Paris Urban Planning Workshop (Apur) recorded 8.8 million intra-muros trips, while the Global Transport Survey highlighted a 10% increase in these trips in eight years.
It is based on this observation that the city was starting a mad race to push cars outside the walls, crystallized by the implementation of the Cycling and active mobility plan, supported by the government.
The same year, a thousand Vélib 'terminals spread across the city, totaling nearly 19,500
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