Mikael discusses the state of the urban cycling nation in Paris with urban designer and mobility consultant Romain Loubiére while sitting on the canal in the spring sunshine on Canal Saint-Martin. They talk about how to tackle the all-dominant traffic engineering culture, the necessity of human observation in traffic planning, Paris’ investment in sub-standard design, who all the new cyclists in Paris are, the new car-light streets around Canal Saint Martin and how Paris - luckily - didn’t build all the highways that were planned in the city centre back in the 1960s.

Music by Phil Creamer from http://hereonout.ca