Paris. Part two.
February 27th 2008 08:35
Paris, part two.
The city is much cleaner than it used to be. Coming back from Sydney every year, it is always a bit of a shock to immerse the first couple of days.
Dog’s shit, street bins overloaded, rubbish and cigarettes butts everywhere on the streets, I have to admit that I can slowly notice each time some kind of improvement...
Unfortunately, the problem about air pollution hasn’t changed much.
Obviously Paris hasn’t been build centuries ago to welcome as many cars as there it does today!
The air is thick and hard to breath, and it takes a little while to adapt our poor little lungs to its new breathing condition.
Although some progresses have been made regarding the public transports, electric buses, subway fast and punctual, tramways back to life, free bicycles stations all over Paris, there is far too many cars... the traffic at rush hours is absolutely unbelievable!
It sure doesn’t help when landing in winter, early morning with a immaculate white sky, as one can wonder if they sold the sun out to some kind of other galaxy and right at the worse time of the day when everybody goes to work, spending an unbearable time in the car to get close to the city of light...
Tourist buses, despite government recommendations to turn off engines while waiting in the streets of Paris, stay on to keep air conditioning cooling off tourists while visiting the city in summer...
It should be a common interest to change some of our habits in order to work for a better environment, well, not so sure...
Obviously great ideas to change the world are somehow quite difficult to apply into the real scale...
The city is much cleaner than it used to be. Coming back from Sydney every year, it is always a bit of a shock to immerse the first couple of days.
Dog’s shit, street bins overloaded, rubbish and cigarettes butts everywhere on the streets, I have to admit that I can slowly notice each time some kind of improvement...
Unfortunately, the problem about air pollution hasn’t changed much.
Obviously Paris hasn’t been build centuries ago to welcome as many cars as there it does today!
The air is thick and hard to breath, and it takes a little while to adapt our poor little lungs to its new breathing condition.
It sure doesn’t help when landing in winter, early morning with a immaculate white sky, as one can wonder if they sold the sun out to some kind of other galaxy and right at the worse time of the day when everybody goes to work, spending an unbearable time in the car to get close to the city of light...
Tourist buses, despite government recommendations to turn off engines while waiting in the streets of Paris, stay on to keep air conditioning cooling off tourists while visiting the city in summer...
It should be a common interest to change some of our habits in order to work for a better environment, well, not so sure...
Obviously great ideas to change the world are somehow quite difficult to apply into the real scale...
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