Mildly Infuriating

This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris

This isn't mildly infuriating. It's just regular infuriating

What would happen if you knocked over all the unattended bikes on "accident"

OP is showing incredible restraint here not to just kick those parked scooters over.

A friendship ended over something this petty

A friend and I were sitting on the curb, legs stretched out over the bike lane. I saw a bike coming and I picked up our bag and got up. He didn't move and got mad at me for doing that "without warning" right before the cyclist rode between us (that was the only path they had). Ex-friend then turned their ire towards the cyclist calling them rude and whatnot. Fortunately the cyclist kept riding. I was finally able to tell them the bike is why I moved. And dude just tried to justify they could sit there if we had just curled our legs, saying there was enough room for the bike to pass. Bro. The entire lane is for the bike. We were just taking advantage of the fact there were no bikes around when we sat down. I had thought he would have the same response I had when the cyclist came. Apparently not and he ranted about it the whole way home. I blocked him when he drove off.

ETA: he was problematic before that and the weed wasn't worth it

I think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?

I'd love to get a group together, and go along just throwing scooters out of the path and into the road.

And the guy in the chair too.

Wow, this is awful.

I’ve ridden bikes in many cities (London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Seville), never saw anything close to this bad.

How standard is this in Saint Denis?

I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c'est la vie as they say)

This must be quite a more tolerant region of friends because the the 2 French people I know would have immediately resorted to violence. Totally valid as well.

I expected more horses in Saint Denis.

Bike obviously means motorbike duh

Sheesh, should take a slice from the Dutch and start ramming people tbh

FWIW saw a scooter parked this way, not on a bike lane but in front of a bike garage. I put a paper on it saying "This is not a parking spot, next time I'm moving it myself" with the intent of being polite but firm. Since then they never parked there anymore. Sometimes people don't even realize.

It's not so black and white. Yes asshole behaviour. But also: the sidewalk is very narrow, there are many shops, people living in the neighborhood are likely to not have any garden or tiny balconies etc. The (other) real culprit is the street designer / city planner. You can see on the other side of the street that despite it being a very narrow, multimodal busy place... they did NOT sacrifice all (free?) streetside parking in favour of more "living space" for pedestrians. Likely recorded during heat wave, with unlivably overheated Appartments and not enough trees/parks in the area...

It's poorly designed infrastructure. Don't blame the people (at least not entirely). The true fault lies with the city planners.

Every so often they need to send down a golf cart with a cow catcher on it

train horn time

France is a tad crazy about driving and parking, or at least it was when I was there last. It's kinda like NYC but no rules. I saw a bakery delivery truck back up to corner and back into the lead car, ramming over and over until the next 5 cars where pushed into eachother and he could park in the corner spot.

Cars all over the sidewalks and in the median toward the tower. Noone giving right of way, you had to just take it or you'd never get in.