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Most major cities now have their own versions of open streets events that temporarily transform streets into car-free freeways for the day. Some of these have gotten quite expansive: Each Sunday, Bogóta famously closes about 80 miles of streets. But Paris is hoping to best everyone next month by closing a large, contained portion of its urban core to all cars for a day.
La Journeé sans Voiture will be Sunday, September 27 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, limiting cars from a substantial area that includes much of the city’s center, around landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, and two major parks. (And, yes, of course, certain exceptions will be made for emergencies.)
Paris may be onto something here--NYC can be at its loveliest after a large snowfall stops all traffic. The concept could also be generalized to other frenetic activities in modern civilization, such as "No TV Day" or "Day Without Social Media."
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Monday August 31 2015, @04:34PM
With this now who is going to honk at garbage trucks?
My experience from living there seemed to be that this was the preferred French motoring past time in Paris. Garbage truck is out collecting trash everyone behind it just honks incessantly.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 31 2015, @06:10PM
It's a shitty, tiring, but necessary job, so the locals are cheering the heroic guys who do it.
...No?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:05PM
Department of Sanitation jobs are coveted in New York. Good pay, great benefits. I know a NYC garbage man who owns a big beach house on the north shore of Long Island. He loves his job, and is always finding antiques and other interesting stuff that other people throw out.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday September 08 2015, @01:45PM
My uncle works as a garbage man here in the Twin Cities and he pulls all sorts of stuff out of the trash that is worth salvaging. He probably makes a few thousand dollars extra a year from just the recyclables he pulls out of people's trash. The jobs usually pay fairly well and are a very necessary one.
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(Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday August 31 2015, @06:11PM
Here at the fringe of the EU, we wave at the garbage truck guy when he picks up our trash; to show him our appreciation for his important & smelly work.
Surely, les parisiens toot their horns to show their appreciation of waste disposal work in a .. slightly more loud way :-) right?