Bike-friendly Paris votes on triple parking fees for SUVs
Bike-friendly Paris votes on triple parking fees for SUVs
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether large SUVs should be subject to a threefold increase in parking charges as the French capital presses on with long-term plans to become a fully bikeable city.
The referendum, less than a year after city residents voted to ban e-scooters, aims to triple parking fees for cars of 1.6 tonnes and more to 18 euros ($19) an hour in order to discourage "bulky, polluting" cars, City Hall said.
The new tariff would also apply to electric cars of 2 tonnes and more.
"Heavier, more dangerous, more polluting ... SUVs are an environmental disaster," Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said on X.
Spoiler - Parisians have just voted in favour of the new fees https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/parisians-vote-in-favour-of-tripling-parking-costs-for-suvs
Wish they'd do this here. So sick of these planet-killing microdickmobiles.
planet-killing microdickmobiles.
Saw a Ford F-250 recently... Why do people with micro dick energy feel they need these awful vehicles?
A mixture of being just comfortable enough with finances and vain enough to want to show it off combined with having extremely bad taste and wanting to own the libs