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Olivier Razemon
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Olivier Razemon writes L'interconnexion n'est plus assurée, a personal blog at transports.blog.lemonde.fr. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Le Monde transport blog as a source on French transit: Paris car ownership figures, criticism of taxis, and SNCF jargon. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Le blog d'Olivier Razemon, journaliste
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/01/12/pourquoi-je-nai-plus-envie-de-prendre-le-taxi/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Come on. I won't dispute your past experiences but you really should avoid extrapolating on anecdotal data. Car ownership for Parisian households sits at 39%. Zooming out to the Ile-de-France region (population: 12 million), 33% of households don't have a car. source (french): http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/05/03/la-preuve-par-l... Regarding your comments on safety, I certainly believe the city feels much sa…
Comment linking /2015/05/03/la-preuve-par-la-carte-non-tout-le-monde-ne-possede-pas-une-voiture/
on “Uber's predatory pricing is undermining public transit and density”Most of those regulations don't work anymore though, being a cab driver in 2014 with the GPS and all the technology is not the same as it used to be. In paris I take the taxi mostly to go to the airport (it's too expensive for anything else) and most drivers have to use their GPS to get me there. I would expect a taxi driver to know how to get to the airport from Paris. I'm not generally against regulation but being…
Comment linking /2014/01/12/pourquoi-je-nai-plus-envie-de-prendre-le-taxi/
on “Uber car attacked by Paris cab drivers on strike”The blog: https://albicentreville.wordpress.com An article from Le Monde about Albi, and the blogger: http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/05/19/albi-sa-cathedr... A few other news articles: http://www.leparisien.fr/midi-pyrenees/un-albigeois-repertor... http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2016/03/10/2301060-cree-page...
Comment linking /2016/05/19/albi-sa-cathedrale-ses-boutiques-vides-et-son-lanceur-dalerte/
on “As France’s Towns Wither, Fears of a Decline in ‘Frenchness’”But also criticism of taxis. Have a look at http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/01/12/pourquoi-je-nai... for an example.
Comment linking /2014/01/12/pourquoi-je-nai-plus-envie-de-prendre-le-taxi/
on “Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway”In France, there is a similar issue with the SNCF. More details in this (French) article: http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/05/27/inoui-sncf-jarg...
Comment linking /2017/05/27/inoui-sncf-jargon-novlangue/
on “English as she isn’t spoke (Part 4)”