If what you are asking is if there would be more pedestrians in the park if the weather was the same in both videos, the answer is no. On top of the wall on the right you have a 4 way street (quai de l’hotel de ville). Add to that the 2 ways street below and the minerality everywhere around, and you get a place that’s unbearable for anybody that is not deaf.
About 20 years ago I did an internship in the summer a few hundreds meters from there. I was a student discovering city life, so I went to all the terraces and good spots in the area. I learned today threw this video that there was an accessible park there. Never heard of it threw the colleagues that lived here or the people I met.
On the other hand there is a good spot on the bank of the quai de Bourbon, just across the river (I just checked, it’s less than 100m away if you can fly). I went there several times for picnic and it was always overcrowded. It was in the summer though.
If you want to see for yourself, you’ve got plenty of pictures in streetview taken in the summer when the cars were there. It’s pretty much empty. You even have more peoples in the pictures taken in november after the works.
You know, I hadn’t considered the noise aspect, yeah. With little foliage by the river and stone walls (pretty as they may be), the noise of traffic would definitely be bouncing off the concrete right at that walkway unmitigated.
To be fair most old European cities are very minerals with relatively narrow street so the car noise is a bigger problem than it should.
I think that is among the reasons that explains the popularity of the policies aiming to reduce car space inside Paris.
The avenues made by Haussman are bad as well on this aspect
Even though cars didn’t exist then, there was a famous architect contemporary to Hausmann who vehemently criticized his “corridor” avenue and was proposing to put the courtyards between/ in front of the buildings instead of inside or beside them.
He called that “boulevard à Redans”, and the idea is awesome, and I suppose this would have helped with the noise problem :
Yeah it’s obviously nicer with more walking space, but the bottom is clearly a nicer day
It might be a nicer day, but judging from people’s clothes both are in winter.
Well, the sun makes a big difference in winter
If what you are asking is if there would be more pedestrians in the park if the weather was the same in both videos, the answer is no. On top of the wall on the right you have a 4 way street (quai de l’hotel de ville). Add to that the 2 ways street below and the minerality everywhere around, and you get a place that’s unbearable for anybody that is not deaf.
About 20 years ago I did an internship in the summer a few hundreds meters from there. I was a student discovering city life, so I went to all the terraces and good spots in the area. I learned today threw this video that there was an accessible park there. Never heard of it threw the colleagues that lived here or the people I met.
On the other hand there is a good spot on the bank of the quai de Bourbon, just across the river (I just checked, it’s less than 100m away if you can fly). I went there several times for picnic and it was always overcrowded. It was in the summer though.
If you want to see for yourself, you’ve got plenty of pictures in streetview taken in the summer when the cars were there. It’s pretty much empty. You even have more peoples in the pictures taken in november after the works.
You know, I hadn’t considered the noise aspect, yeah. With little foliage by the river and stone walls (pretty as they may be), the noise of traffic would definitely be bouncing off the concrete right at that walkway unmitigated.
To be fair most old European cities are very minerals with relatively narrow street so the car noise is a bigger problem than it should.
I think that is among the reasons that explains the popularity of the policies aiming to reduce car space inside Paris. The avenues made by Haussman are bad as well on this aspect
Even though cars didn’t exist then, there was a famous architect contemporary to Hausmann who vehemently criticized his “corridor” avenue and was proposing to put the courtyards between/ in front of the buildings instead of inside or beside them. He called that “boulevard à Redans”, and the idea is awesome, and I suppose this would have helped with the noise problem :