Paris, Taipei: Bicycles Forever (巴黎.台北 單車萬歲) is a documentary directed by Jean-Robert Thomann (尚若白). It looks at the experience of bicycle commuters in Paris and Taipei. I went to the premiere screening at Eslite Dunnan Bookstore today and it will screen on PTS (公視) tomorrow.
The documentary explores the attitudes of those who have chosen to use a bicycle as their primary form of transport. It looks at both the positives and negatives of this lifestyle choice. The people featured are quite a diverse group. I thought the most interesting one was a woman who uses a bicycle to send her two children to school. If only more people in Taipei would follow her example.
The documentary also considers the development of bicycle paths and bike sharing systems. Taipei’s U-bike system obviously lags a long way behind Paris’s Velib system. It shows that while there have been some improvements in Taipei, the city still has a long way to go before it provides a friendly environment for bicycle commuters.
The photo above shows Jean-Robert filming Bike Smiling in Taipei in March 2009. There is a funny story related to this photo. Before being interviewed the man said they should interview the foreigner to make it more international (國際化). I replied that it was better to film him to make it more local (本土化). I make several brief appearances in the documentary.
Paris, Taipei: Bicycles Forever premieres on PTS at 10pm on Tuesday 9 March 2010. There are repeats at 3am on 10 March and 3pm on 13 March. The documentary is in French and Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.
【巴黎.台北 單車萬歲】
公共電視13頻道
3/9 週二 晚間十點
3/10 週三 凌晨兩點半
3/13 周六 下午三點
法、華語發音，中文字幕
*Originally posted at David on Formosa.
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回覆刪除輪粹生活顏大哥提出的公車航空母艦理論真是太讚了！
回覆刪除有一段讓我好難過，就是台大校內單車店老闆提到校園內有許多被廢棄的腳踏車，或許能請台大的朋友幫忙買一些來看能怎麼運用！
回覆刪除其實片中在交通局進行的那場會議,主旨是交工處希望千里步道或其他團體能提出敦化南北路周邊的單車通勤串連路線,但一方面千里步道並不是單車組織,再者這不該是單一團體的權責(而是應該開放給社會大眾),當時我自己的私心是「擔心原本適合單車通勤的好路徑被蓋了單車道以後就不見了或是變得更危險更不好騎,例如富錦街」,受邀到場的還有綠盟的陳建志老師,我忘了那時有沒有提出路線,另外也邀請單車同學會的單車路線達人--阿惠大大,但在會議開始後於電話中告知不能來...我覺得因為會議時間是放在工作日的白天,所以會有很多有能力有意願表達意見的人都不能來,是這場會議最為可惜的地方!也是有心想要開放資訊給人民的政府相關單位,日後要努力改善的~以上，是影片中小小片段沒能呈現的真實風景，一時想到就來補上。
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