Rennes, Paris, Lille hold the head of the list of streets of Soif. A classification made according to the concentration of alcohol outlets.
Bars as far as the eye can see. On the adjoining terraces, onlookers gather, cups in hand in recyclable plastic (returnable) filled with bad beer, piquette or rum-coca-lemon. Loud voices and laughter erupt; sometimes the features of the faces sag, the glances turn glassy. It’s normal. You are on rue de la Soif. In Paris, Rennes, Lyon, whatever: they are all alike.
Lots of bars in one street. That’s the concept, not the most complex. The aisle comes alive with an aperitif and ends at a late hour of the night. Some only come to “peck”: a bistro or two, a few drinks. Others embark on a “barathon” and aim to visit all the counters. Still others simply avoid this alley that they nickname “rue de la Gerbe” after midnight.
Alcohol concentration
Any city that respects itself therefore has its rue de la Soif, a hotspot for biture popular with the youngest, especially students. Based on this observation, a data specialist set out to classify these aisles according to the concentration of alcohol outlets. The result, posted on the site Datamix and spotted by the newspaper West France, delivers a sort of list of the streets of La Soif.
Mathieu Garnier thus gathered the data of the fifty or so streets in France containing more than ten bars. “The concept of the rue de la Soif being rather vague, I tried to objectify it”, he explains on Datamix. By counting the number of bistros and the distance to travel to walk from one to the other, he succeeded in establishing this classification.
Unsurprisingly, it is the famous rue Saint-Michel in Rennes that wins, with its 13 bars at the rate of one every seven meters. The rue de Bourgogne, in Orléans, holds the quantitative record with 24 drinking establishments, but it is still necessary to climb the 22 meters which separate them from each other. As a result, the Orléans route only appears in sixth position. Behind Rennes, we find rue des Cordeliers in Bayonne (11 stores, one every 12 meters), rue de Lappe in Paris (17 stores, one every 15 meters) and rue Massena in Lille (20 stores, one every the 18 meters).
“Example of the calculation of the optimal route to enter the 17 bars on rue de Lappe in Paris: an alcoholic course of 250 meters, or a bistro every 15 meters on average. Rude ”, comments Mathieu Garnier.
From thirst to binge
Nothing to show off for the winners of this list: the most densely endowed streets of Thirst are also those where perilous binge drinking is practiced. Besides the alcoholic comas and the sad visions of uncontrolled drunkenness, these streets fill, sporadically, the headlines of the newspapers. It is then a question of aggression, violence, sometimes death. Each time, alcoholism is questioned, and even if they do not have a monopoly on deadly attacks, in fact, the streets of Thirst are often the streets of Anguish for the police and hospital emergency services.
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