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A Utopia sans automobile

You can’t miss the bright blue trams of Montpellier. If you’re walking through the Place de la Comédie, the one wide-open piazza in this southern French city’s compact centre, the bullet-nosed streetcars are the dynamic constant in a place otherwise devoted to plein-air pleasures. They zip into the cobbled pedestrian zone with a grace that belies their bulk and release their exuberant crowds so close to the busy café tables that the fancy apéritifs seem to shake with sympathetic vibrations.

JOHN ALLEMANG

From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail

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