New Bike Lanes in Paris Aim to Make Olympics Fully Bikeable

In anticipation of over 1 million visitors to Paris for the Olympic Games, the city has not only cleaned up the Seine, but also expanded its already-extensive cycling infrastructure. In just over two years, the network added 34 miles of dedicated lanes, ensuring that every venue can be reached on two wheels. The city also added new cycle parking and thousands of additional bikes for sharing.

The new lanes — built in part to ease pressure on the public transit system and in part to advance the city’s broader sustainability goals — make Paris the first Olympic Games in the modern era to be entirely bikeable. As contributor Laura Laker writes in a new perspective, the impressive engineering feat almost didn’t happen. Today on CityLab: Cyclists Are Taking Over Paris for the Olympic Games