http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51717 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 06:33:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51717#post-148762 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:18:55 +0000 bavardage 148762@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, is at it again in his campaign to clean up the city.</p> <p>Back in 2007, he <a href="http://www.france-today.com/search/label/Velib">gave</a> Parisians Vélib', the bicycle sharing system.</p> <p>Last year he launched an electric car sharing programme - Autolib' - guaranteed to annoy any driver stuck behind one of those flippin' Dinky toys and render even the most mild-mannered motorist barmy.</p> <p>And now he's planning to go one step further with the world's first ever shoe sharing scheme - Marchelib'.</p> <p>The idea is a simple one: using the same pick-up and drop-off stations already available for Velib', Parisians, out-of-towners, visitors - in fact just about everyone - will be able to grab a pair of walking shoes or boots and strut their stuff happily through the City of Light.</p> <p>The announcement came on Monday as part of a package of measures aimed at trying to reduce pollution levels in Paris - still too high at certain times of the year and which contravene EU regulations - and simultaneously piss off the maximum number of motorists.</p> <p>Among the <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2012/11/12/pollution-delanoe-degaine-un-nouveau-plan-anti-voitures_859874">proposals</a> are a reduction of the speed limit on the ever-flowing (as if) Boulevard Périphérique from 80km/h to 70km/h (as if), a ban all cars older than 17 years from the city centre (and drivers with less than 17 years of experience), the introduction of a péage, or toll, on the motorways immediately surrounding the capital to limit the number of trucks and the launch of Marchelib'.</p> <p>Appearing on national radio Delanoë said the propositions "represented a new step in the city's battle against pollution" and although Parisians had changed their habits over the last decade,"pollution still remained a scourge."</p> <p>Delanoë insisted Marchelib' would not only help cut drastically the levels of pollution,but "also make Parisians fitter, healthier and give a boost to the economy by requiring that the shoes supplied would only be 'Made in France'."</p> <p>The mayor, a prominent member of the Socialist party, said he would be talking to the government minister in charge of industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg, to help draw up a list of French cobblers. </p>