Paris may be developing a reputation as a bike-friendly city, but that friendliness still has its limitations.
Arguably chief among those limitations is the region’s inner beltway—the Boulevard Périphérique, the chronically clogged highway separating the historic city from its (very dense) “suburbs,” in which safe lanes are fewer and the distances are longer. Recently, however, Paris’s suburbs have been catching up, and a new proposal could make them radically easier to navigate by bicycle.
