[zemike]

As time goes by, people will feel like these changes are more and more what makes Paris great. It will be similar to how progress happened for Amsterdam and other cities. A slow conscious fight against car centric infrastructure, it’s not magic, it’s slow steady progress.

[Zopieux]

Locals already know and vote accordingly.

Unfortunately it is considered "woke" and left-brained to use alternatives to cars, therefore billionaire-owned media (i.e. most of French TV and press) tries to hammer that this is somehow bad, making policy progress needlessly slow and difficult.