"Mayhem on Rue de Rivoli"

That's "chaos!"? 

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood...looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year.

The mayhem on Rue de Rivoli...is playing out on streets across Paris as the authorities pursue an ambitious goal of making the city a European cycling capital by 2024.

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The abiding French sense of “liberté” is on display in the streets at all hours, where Parisians young and old jaywalk at nearly every opportunity. They appear to have carried that freewheeling spirit to their bikes.

                                                                      She looks pissed.

“In Denmark, which has a decades-long cycling culture, the mentality is, ‘Don’t go if the light is red,’” said Christine Melchoir, a Dane who has lived in Paris for 30 years and commutes daily by bike. “But for a Parisian, the mentality is, ‘Do it!’”

That is an unintentionally very charming article. Love France.