Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees | The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60k parking spots & create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees | The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60k parking spots & create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat
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Excellent news! Well done Paris!
"Drop speed limits"?
Anne Hidalgo is a legendary Mayor
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
I don't think that word means what the journalist think it means. Dropping means abolishing the speed limit in this case, drive as fast as you like. Instead Paris is actually lowering Speed Limits on the Ring Road down to 50km/h.
I agree with you, had to read it twice to make sure they don't mean to remove speed limits.
After a quick search I found a different article from BBC about a speed limit that is dropped from 30 mph to 20 mph. TIL.
Eh. People sometimes using “dropping” to be synonymous with “lowering.” I got what they meant.
Just as an example off the top of my head, when describing the temperature, a person might say “the temperature dropped by 10 degrees” or “to 20 degrees.”
Yeah okay, but context matters in this case.
Temperature dropped? Fine.
A case was dropped? Its no longer applicable.
A Speed limit was dropped? Its no longer applicable.
My Sandwich got dropped in the trashbin? You threw my Sandwich Away!? MY SANDWICH? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFevK2lDJI
Oh yeah that's a really bad ambiguity to end up in an article.
Yeah. Whatever. We already know only French taxes and citizens abuse will save the world. Keep up the good work everywhere else, we’re here.
Oh so since no single measure will be sufficient no reason for any measures to be taken?
Abuse? Because the Paris mayor actually thinks about the future and doesn't want her citizens to die?