With the wind rushing through their hair, they zip past on bikes, electric scooters and mono-wheels, effortlessly passing lines of hot-and-bothered drivers stuck in the endless Paris traffic.
Not only is the city upgrading its public transport system offering of interurban trains, buses and the metro, it is also enjoying an unparalleled explosion of alternatives. And that's without mentioning other private mobility devices such as two-wheeled e-hoverboards or electric unicycles.Not according to the taxi drivers, who are already infuriated with the growing demands on their space and the planned 1,000-kilometres of bike lanes that are due to be completed by 2020.
"Paris is a great playing field but the space is saturated. They need to bring it back down to two or three operators, like San Francisco, which has just two," says Najdovski from the mayor's office. Today, just over a third -- 37 percent -- of Parisian homes have a car, and that drops to one in five in the city centre, according to the mayor's office.
Although car-sharing has been slow to take off in France compared with its neighbours, one way to encourage this could be shared lanes, notably on the city's choked peripherique, its 34-kilometre ring road.
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