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This is going to make some New Yorkers mad, but we need to look at what Paris is doing with its streets.
I was sent to Paris last month as part of the team covering the Olympic Games, and I kept noticing different ways — some huge, some small — that the streets in Paris were superior to those in my beloved New York.