Interesting Paris statistics

The Paris night bus (Noctilien)

Between 12:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. 42 buses circulate the Paris streets. The numbers show that between September 2005 and March 2007, the network carried ten million plus (10, 283, 979) passengers.

Crottes de chiens campaign

The mayor's office has decided to take a new approach to dog poop (crottes de chiens). City hall has decided to use humor and not be repressive or moralistic to encourage picking up after the pet dog.

They have put out 30,000 collection receptacles. The fine if one does not pick up after poochie is 183 euros.

2006 Paris traffic deaths - 64 deaths, 9,106 injuries

A campaign is underway in Paris to lessen the deaths of pedestrians, motorcylists, car drivers, and cyclists.

Although deaths have decreased since 2001, the city of Paris feels the number is still too high.

When you see the black and white placards along Paris streets, they give the first name of the dead victim, age, what they were doing when they were killed and the means by which they were killed.

Eiffel Tower - 6,719,200 visitors in 2006.

The Eiffel Tower has topped its all time high in visitation, showing a 4.5% increase over 2005 (6,428,441 visitors).
As for ticket sales, they were up 5% for a total of 48.7 M€ (VAT non-included).

More than half climb to the top.

The Tower is open during long hours every day of the year – 9:30am to 11:45pm in winter, 9:00am to 12:45am in summer – with 30% of the visitors arriving during the evening hours. 55% go to the top of the Tower and 20% prefer the stairs when climbing to the 2nd floor (704 steps). Groups make up 13% of the total visitors. -- from the Eiffel Tower website

Louvre  - had 8,3 millions visitors in 2006, compared with 7,5 millions in 2005 -- le Point magazine.

The Louvre website had 9,6 million hits.

Musée d'Orsay - ... This museum of the 19th century, was inaugurated 20 years ago on December 1, 1986....  In 2005, 2 590 000 visitors came to admire sculpture, paintings and other works by David, from Angers to Degas, and from Chassériau to Monet -- information from the Paris Tourist Office

Paris - Paris has an estimated population of 2,154,000 inhabitants as of January 1, 2005. It grew by 28,000 since the last census in 1999.

The Île-de-France area in and around Paris has approximately 11, 399,000 residents as of January 1, 2005.

France, in general, has an approximate population of 63.4 million people.

Paris - trees number 484,253  in Paris squares and parks, along the highways, the Bois de Vincennes and Bois de Boulogne, along the beltway (périphérique) and cemeteries.-- Jardins et nature à Paris - janvier à juin 2007

A baguette of bread: 250 g = 8.825 oz
A half of beer: 25 cl = 0.52 US pt or 0.44 UK pt
Eiffel Tower: 324 m = 1063.04 ft
Champs-Elysées: 2 km = 1.24 mi