Poop in the Seine, Packed Trains, Convoluted QR Codes -- Is Paris Ready for the Olympics?
Poop in the Seine, Packed Trains, Convoluted QR Codes -- Is Paris Ready for the Olympics?
With only a few weeks left to go and protests taking the city, Parisians speak out about the upcoming games
Is any city ready for the Olympics? Doesn't this happen every four years?
Is any city ready for the aftermath of the Olympics? What are the plans for this stadium after the fact
Stadiums in France are municipal facilities. I'm sure the stadium will join the others in Paris and be used for a variety of events.
Most of the new facilities are constructed with wood and recycled aluminum, and the plans at the end are to dismantle them and reuse the components in other building projects. Its actually kind of a neat idea, but we'll see how it actually gets implemented.
Most of the stuff was already built before the Olympics. There are very few new constructions.
I don't know why the last sentence is hidden under a trending articles list, but it's rather telling:
“It’s gonna be a beautiful opening ceremony,” Gloppe says. “If there is no terrorist attack.”
And living in Paris, I cannot help but fear there can be attempts at attacks. I work near near the city center and since Monday I have seen a lot more police officers patrolling, they seem to be on high alert.
I wanted to visit Paris my whole life. Pere Lachaise cemetery, the Eiffel tower, the museums, the food.
When I got there the cemetery was filled with lying grifters trying to sell bullshit stories about the people interred there. The tower was full of pick pockets and scumbags ripping off tourists for thread bracelets. The museums were filled with influencers blocking access to a lot of the displays with their stupid duck lips and tag-along 'photographers' with their iphones .
The only thing that lived up to the dream was the food. Oh my the food...
Oh... And the experience of seeing a woman shitting in the seine in broad daylight. That was kind of exciting too...
I’ve been to Paris several times now and I found it way better after I did all the touristy stuff. Just walking around old neighborhoods and doing less iconic activities. I kind of had to run out of “must do” tourist checklist things before I really appreciated Paris.
I should mention that we also really enjoyed the back streets and small neighbourhoods. They made up for a lot of the disappointment.
Similar experience. The food was amazing, the louvre and notre damme were crowded, musee dorsay was great, streets were gross and grifters everywhere.
Then I went to Kyoto. It was everything Paris is supposed to be. Absolutely amazing place. Incredible French food actually, wasn’t expecting that.
And not to forget the recent election that will soon go into the second phase
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Eight years later, with a few weeks left to go before the opening ceremony, virtually none of these promises have materialized: instead of free public transit, one-way metro tickets, which typically cost €2.10, will increase to €4.
There’s almost a glee with which we anticipate the woeful tales shared by ticket holders who spent thousands of dollars to essentially be barricaded into a prison-like, QR code-controlled red zone.
One Linkedin post that recently went viral in Paris warns of “quishing” scams, where fake QR codes are placed on top of real ones, misdirecting scanners to fraudulent websites.
Olympics construction has closed major city hubs, like Place de la Concorde, and some metro stops, like Champs-Elysées – Clémenceau, will be completely shut down.
On June 23, the day that Mayor Hidalgo and President Macron were initially supposed to swim in the Seine, a website and social media campaign encouraging residents to poop in the river in protest of the Games went viral.
The far-right party Rassemblement National seems poised to take over control of the assembly, an outcome that many Americans in Paris are likening to the rise of Donald Trump in their own country.
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Oh maybe that was the reason Macron called an election! So he would not have to swim in poo.
The Olympics is a cancer on cities and no sane taxpayer should ever agree to hosting this.
Also wtf are "convoluted" QR codes. A QR code is a QR code, or is that too much to grasp
It would be pretty funny if this is how the newest bird flu pandemic starts
