Why Paris Tore Down a Highway to Build a Tram

Paris is going all in on its urban revolution. Over the last decade, it's added hundreds of miles of bike lanes, expanded its bus lanes, replaced parking with trees, pedestrianized its streets, and, to top it all off, tore down a useless highway to make way for an expansion of the T1 Tramway. Since the 1980s France has been building tramway systems in cities big and small. 28 cities in France now have tram networks and Paris has begun work on further expanding its 14-line tram network, including adding dozens of kilometers of tracks to its inaugural line: the T1. But, there's something special about this specific expansion: it includes replacing an unfinished highway with a much friendlier tram boulevard. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15hB6ywGG3HyAH4RG89sXfYa-Wf0FilryChLepZNnbPY/edit#gid=2022833749 Chapters: 00:00 - 00:44 Boogeyman 00:45 - 01:21 Tearing Down A Highway 01:22 - 01:50 Tramway Renaissance 01:51 - 03:27 Paris Transport System 03:28 - 04:21 Extending the Tramway 04:22 - 05:14 Pasadena SR 710 05:15 - 05:49 Outro #tramway #paris #urbanism #transit #urbanplanning #ecology