Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
www.bloomberg.com
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.
  • SolNine@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I don’t understand why these passively cooling roofs aren’t being used EVERYWHERE seems like an absolute no brainer.

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I don’t know what passive cooling roofs you mean, but I guess its because its much harder to convince people to swap their roofs. Of course you can support The usage of them, but you won’t convince people to switch their old roof for a new one.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Meanwhile Canada is removing bike lanes for more car support, and the US elected a deeply anti-environment party.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    1817·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      4 days ago

      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.”

      • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
        416·
        4 days ago

        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 Its no longer applicable.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 Its no longer applicable.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

        • HamsterRage@lemmy.caEnglish
          161·
          4 days ago

          No way. When something numerical is “dropped” it usually means lowered. Especially in the form “drop numerical value”, as was this case.

          • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
            312·
            4 days ago

            There is no numeric value in that teaser text though. “[…] promises to drop speed limits”

        • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          4 days ago

          Sure. But the way I look at language is “if you can understand it, it’s right.”

          If you understood what they meant enough to be pedantic about it, it was probably a fine use of the word.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          4 days ago

          If you talk about numbers, saying dropped means the numbers have lowered.

          Just like with your temperature example.

          Temperature (a number) dropped

          Speed limit (a number) dropped

          Pandas in the wild (a number) dropped

    • Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    054·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • federal reverse@feddit.orgOPMEnglish
      342·
      4 days ago

      Abuse? Because the Paris mayor actually thinks about the future and doesn’t want her citizens to die?

    • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Obviously 1. Sarcasm doesn’t read well on the internet and 2. You guys don’t know paris’ mayor eagerness and lust for self rewarding objectives (like being listed in the top 100 personalities…) You’re right to downvote, my bad. The world needs help, probably not with that kind of hypocritical intensions, but anyway…