Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs

"But that will make it cost prohibitive to own an SUV!!!"

Yes... Yes it will.

This whole vehicular size arms race needs to go away please.

It's so retarded that people think they need to get bigger cars to "protect" themselves in accidents. Just feedback looping stupidity.

While this is great, someone who doesnt mind paying a 100k for a car wont mind the extra fees.

What would really change the game is changing existing parking spaces to fixed size parking spaces and if your over that you get towed.

That would mean they have to park their car somewhere more remote which would incentisize not buying huge cars to begin with

Suck it, SUV owners in Paris.

But really, suck it every SUV owner. They're terrible in every single way and no one can change that.

54.6% voted for the increase.... turnout was 5.7%. So just over 3% of the eligible Parisian population voted for this.

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Easiest vote in the world is to vote to raise someone else's taxes. We should do that for billionaires.

Wait, they banned electric scooter rentals?

Is the main argument that they're unsightly?

Parisians hate their fellow countrymen almost as much as they hate Americans.

I'm sure the folks who drive larger vehicles because they're hauling things like wheelchairs will protest that.

There ARE valid reasons for SUVs.

This thread was weird to read as an owner of a CR-V. I checked and it's just under the weight limit for the new law, and it fits easily in "compact" parking spaces, but I think of it as an SUV because that's what it looks like.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a referendum on Sunday, which was closely watched by other capital cities, including London, 54.6% voted in favour of special parking fees for SUVs, according to provisional results.

“Parisians have made a clear choice … other cities will follow,” said Paris’s Socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, adding that road safety and air pollution were key reasons for the vote.

She said the aim was to deliberately target the richest drivers of expensive, heavy and polluting cars who had not yet made changes to their behaviour to address the climate crisis.

Emmanuel Grégoire, Paris’s deputy mayor, posted on X as voting began: “Heavier, more dangerous, more polluting … SUVs are an environmental disaster.”

Under Hidalgo, Paris has for years raised pressure on drivers by increasing parking costs and gradually banning diesel vehicles, while expanding the bicycle lane network in the congested capital.

The motorists’ lobby group 40 Millions d’Automobilistes had argued that drivers should be free to choose whatever vehicle they want, warning that the move to raise parking tariffs was unjustified and the work of “an ultra-urban and anti-car minority”.

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This limit needs to be instituted at a country level.

For example now that the Volkswagen up/Skoda citigo/seat Mii has been put out of production, there isn't a single car made by all the brands of the Volkswagen group that's shorter than 4 meters.

I would love this in Australia, all the private school soccer mums would revolt!

So they made having an SUV a money flex?

Good. They are about as expensive as normal car park fees in Amsterdam.

Fuck that, the fine should be a billion times higher, and it should cover EVERY car. In existence. All of them. Everywhere. Personally I want to see a full scale global ban on motor vehicles. I am also perfectly certain that it will happen any day now.

The prices will apply to vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tonnes with a combustion engine or hybrid vehicles, and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles.

Bmw x2 xDrive25e is a hybrid weighing 1800kg.

Bmw x2 sDrive18i is a petrol weighing 1500kg.

Both have exactly the same petrol engine. The plugin hybrid car, despite being cleaner, falls under the new parking law while the pure petrol one does not. Seems like they didn't thought this through, and it is (again) bullshit to do this in the name of climate. They just want money.

Well. This makes no sense for me. How do SUVs deffer from other cars? They take only one parking lot and many SUVs are even smaller than an average car. Why not to rise parking costs for luxury cars?