How To Ride The Paris Metro
Friends, lamenting the fact that they paid $4.17 a gallon for gas this past week, generated a conversation over dinner of how the US, aside from a handful of major urban areas, lacks so significantly in good public transit. The town I lived in for the last 12 years is so un-pedestrian friendly for both walking and biking, sprawling outward for miles that if you don’t have a car, you are sunk. Citing my very positive experience with the Paris metro and my girlfriend’s upbringing in Germany, where again, public transportation was available and part of daily life, we tried to envision suburban communities that embraced biking, walking and busing. As a result of a very delicious dinner, several glasses of a great Zinfandel and thought provoking conversation, I came home to write my post and couldn’t help but salute the Paris metro. For the uninitiated, it may seem terribly complicated, but honestly, everything should be so easy and accessible. Watch this video and be enlightened.
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