Parisians approve the precept of particular parking pricing for heavy autos | EUROtoday

Parisians voted virtually 55% in favor of tripling parking charges for tall and heavy vehicles, referred to as SUVs, within the capital, Sunday February 4, introduced the municipality.

“What a beautiful evening!” » wrote Barthelemy Bolo, Anne Hidalgo’s press advisor, on shortly earlier than the outcomes of the vote have been printed. The participation fee is estimated at just below 6% throughout the capital.

Visitors whose thermal or plug-in hybrid autos exceed 1.6 tonnes, or two tonnes for an electrical car, will due to this fact should pay 18 euros per hour for the central districts, and 12 euros for the outer districts, as soon as the measure is applied. place after resolution of the Paris Council.

Will not be affected “Parisian residents and sedentary professionals parked in their authorized parking zone, taxi drivers in dedicated stations, craftsmen, health professionals” and disabled individuals, based on the city corridor.

Low participation fee

Some 1.3 million Parisian voters have been invited to vote on Sunday “for or against the creation of a specific rate for the parking of heavy, bulky, polluting individual cars”. SUVs, the English acronym for “Sport Utility Vehicle”, have been particularly focused, with traits combining “those of a passenger car with those of a utility vehicle”and 4x4s.

The 38 polling locations closed their doorways at 7 p.m. The vote was marked by a low participation fee. Some moved to defend “ecology”others to attempt to sanction the “diktats” of the municipality. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party, PS), voted in an elementary college on 15^e borough shortly earlier than 6 p.m.

Fight towards air pollution and highway security

In the capital, which has already pedestrianized the quays of the Seine and greened 2 hundred streets, PS mayor Anne Hidalgo justified the vote by the struggle towards air pollution, higher sharing of public house and the ” road safety “accidents involving an SUV being based on the city corridor “twice as deadly for pedestrians as with a standard car”.

The NGO WWF describes SUVs as“aberration” within the face of world warming: these are “200 kilos heavier, 25 cm longer, 10 cm wider” than a regular automotive. And require extra supplies for his or her manufacture, eat 15% extra gasoline and emit 20% extra CO2 than a sedan.

Unsurprisingly, motorist associations have criticized the city corridor's initiative. SUV is a “marketing name” Who ” does not mean anything “reacts Yves Carra, spokesperson for the Mobilité Club France.

10% of the fleet involved

For the right-wing opposition, this “demonstrates the extent of the manipulation by the City, which targets SUVs in its communication when in reality, any type of vehicle is likely to be affected by the standards submitted to the vote”.

According to the city corridor, the surcharge would concern “around 10% of the park” and will usher in round 35 million further revenues. This vote is the second within the capital, after the one which ratified the eviction of self-service scooters in April 2023, throughout which some 103,000 individuals voted.