Comments on: No Thongs on the Pompidou Expressway! Tomorrow the F.D.R.? http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: StreetsBlog » European Vacation http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 StreetsBlog » European Vacation Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:24:36 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/#comment-1285 [...] While it is a shame that New York City's Transportation Commissioner will not have the opportunity to enjoy Amsterdam's phenomenal urban bicycling facilities, in London she has the chance to see how Trafalgar Square has been vastly improved as a public space by closing half of it to automobiles. Perhaps this will inspire some ideas for Times Square. In Paris, of course, Weinshall and family will have the opportunity to ride Le Mobilien, the city's new Bus Rapid Transit system, and visit a riverfront expressway that has been ridden of cars and transformed into a public beach. Just remember, as the New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago, no topless bathing or thongs allowed at Paris-Plage (that's right, the only recent coverage the Times has given to Paris's transpo reforms focused on... thongs). [...] [...] While it is a shame that New York City’s Transportation Commissioner will not have the opportunity to enjoy Amsterdam’s phenomenal urban bicycling facilities, in London she has the chance to see how Trafalgar Square has been vastly improved as a public space by closing half of it to automobiles. Perhaps this will inspire some ideas for Times Square. In Paris, of course, Weinshall and family will have the opportunity to ride Le Mobilien, the city’s new Bus Rapid Transit system, and visit a riverfront expressway that has been ridden of cars and transformed into a public beach. Just remember, as the New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago, no topless bathing or thongs allowed at Paris-Plage (that’s right, the only recent coverage the Times has given to Paris’s transpo reforms focused on… thongs). [...]

]]> By: Ethan http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Ethan Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:28:37 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/#comment-903 For more on the radical, creative and politicaly successful transportation reform in Paris, see: http://www.nycsr.org/lessons/paris.php http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/june2005/paris For more on the radical, creative and politicaly successful transportation reform in Paris, see:

http://www.nycsr.org/lessons/paris.php

http://www.pps.org/info/newsletter/june2005/paris

]]> By: john massengale http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/comment-page-1/#comment-902 john massengale Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:16:20 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2006/08/01/no-thongs-on-the-pompidou-expressway-tomorrow-the-fdr/#comment-902 What they're missing are the old <a href="http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/07/hot_time_summer_1.html" rel="nofollow">floating swimming pools</a> they used to have. What they’re missing are the old floating swimming pools they used to have.

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