Coronavirus Accelerates Plans to Put Urban Commuters on Bicycles

Most of Paris was asleep when a team of men in orange overalls fanned out across an avenue in the 11th arrondissement with blowtorches and road paint. They labored for hours to show Parisians a radical new way to use their 400-year-old street. By daybreak, one lane of regular traffic was gone and the asphalt was lined with rows of freshly stenciled yellow bicycles. Squads like this one have been dispatched almost nightly across the City of Light since France first lifted its coronavirus lockdown on May 11. By order of the...