Some cities are trying not just to electrify cars, but to replace as many of them as possible with cleaner (631) _______ of transportation, like bicycles. In 2021, officials in Paris announced a plan to make their city “100 percent cycle-friendly” in the next five years. Paris was already on a yearlong journey to (632) _______ away with cars in the city centre, or at least to reduce their numbers. Between 2001 and 2018, the number of car trips taken in Paris fell by 60 percent. Over that same period, public transit trips increased by 40 percent and bicycle trips by 20 percent.

Cycling has boomed even more in recent years, (633) ________ set up during the coronavirus pandemic, nicknamed “coronapistes,” or “corona lanes.” The percentage of trips taken by bicycle within Paris more than (634) _______ between 2020 and 2024, from 5 to 11 percent, according to the Paris Region Institute, an urban planning agency that works for cities around Europe.

Paris currently has more than 1,000 kilometres of bike lanes, and will get 180 more under the current plan, along with tens of thousands of bicycle parking spots and new traffic light patterns (635) _______.

(Adapted from https://www.nytimes.com/)

Some cities are trying not just to electrify cars, but to replace as many of them as possible with cleaner (631) _______ of transportation, like bicycles.