Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers - eviltoast
The French capital's mayor hailed a 'clear choice of Parisians' in favor of a measure that is 'good for our health and good for the planet.'

The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let’s get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

  • azimir@lemmy.mlOP
    31·
    9 months ago

    We have two: A Ford Explorer (really trying to get the money to get rid of it) and a Forester. The Forester is small enough that it wouldn’t be triple pay in Paris, but the Explorer is a 3 ton brick. We had it because a few years back we still had six kids at home, but now that they’re filtering off to college, we are desperate to downsize. We’re being stopped because our city’s public transit (yay US cities) is a shitshow and our workplaces haven’t given us raises in years. Yes, we’re looking for other work, but so far it’s been tough to find things in our field, etc.

    As soon as we can, that vehicle is being kicked to the curb. It’s a terrible waste.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      31·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I similarly got the SUV because of kids and I think there are use cases for them, they’re just vastly overpurchased and a tax could curb that.