The average is still 1.3 person per car, if you get outside a little you will see tons of single person in cars, and not in minitruck like artisans.

https://www.paris.fr/pages/le-bilan-des-deplacements-a-paris...

Indicate 13% of the traffic is for utilitary vehicule. This number include people taking their utilitary vehicule for personal reason. 50% is for personal vehicules.

Also, why were you driving around Paris ?

> most alternative routes usually take longer

It depends.

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baud147258 a year ago | parent [-]

But I don't see anything in the document that shows that people are using personal vehicles for deplacements they could have easily been made with public transportation. Which was your original point that I disagreeing with: people aren't 'brainwashed by cars', but rather can't practically use another way.

Also, according to one of the linked pdf, cars in Paris are barely for Paris-Paris movement, but more for Paris-suburbs, which is still the biggest weakness of the public transportation network.

	▲	Kuinox a year ago \| parent [-]
		If you need to go east-west of paris suburb, that's 1h in car, the same time in public transit. If you need to go north-south of paris suburb, that's 1h in car and 30 mins in public transit.