Bike-friendly Paris votes on triple parking fees for SUVs ( www.reuters.com )

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.

TheAlbatross ,

Nice, fuck every SUV

tomjs ,

The tariff only applies to diesel and petrol vehicles that weigh over 1.6 tonnes, and electric vehicles that weigh over 2 tonnes. Read the post.

rbesfe ,

I don't think there's a gas SUV that weighs less than 1.6 tonnes, is there?

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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Wish they'd do this here. So sick of these planet-killing microdickmobiles.

Ganondorf ,
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planet-killing microdickmobiles.

Saw a Ford F-250 recently... Why do people with micro dick energy feel they need these awful vehicles?

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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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

HeartyBeast ,

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

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