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AP: Parisians vote to hit SUVs with eye-popping parking costs in latest green drive before
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:50 am
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:50 am
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PARIS (AP) — Parisians voted Sunday to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September, the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games greener and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists.
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More than 54% of the votes cast in the low-turnout election supported the measure to triple parking fees for large SUV drivers from out of town to 18 euros ($19.50) per hour in the city’s center, according to official results from City Hall. Only 5.7% of the 1.3 million eligible voters cast ballots at the 39 voting stations around the city.
In get-out-the-vote posts on social media, Hidalgo argued that SUVs take up too much space on narrow Parisian streets, are too polluting and “threaten our health and our planet,” and cause more traffic accidents than smaller cars. The additional fees will come into force from Sept. 1, Hidalgo said.
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The cost for non-residents to park SUVs in Paris’ central districts, in the arrondissements numbered 1 through 11, would soar to 18 euros ($19.5) per hour for the first two hours, compared to 6 euros per hour for smaller cars.
After that, parking would become increasingly punitive. A six-hour stay with an SUV — enough, say, to take in a show and a restaurant — would cost a whopping 225 euros ($243), compared to 75 euros for smaller vehicles.
Away from the heart of the city, in Paris’ outer arrondissements numbered 12 through 20, an out-of-town SUV driver would pay 12 euros per hour for the first two hours, progressively rising to 150 euros for six hours.
The mini-referendum was open to Parisians registered to vote. The question they were asked was: “For or against the creation of a specific rate for the parking of heavy, bulky, polluting individual cars?”
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The cost for non-residents to park SUVs in Paris’ central districts, in the arrondissements numbered 1 through 11, would soar to 18 euros ($19.5) per hour for the first two hours, compared to 6 euros per hour for smaller cars.
After that, parking would become increasingly punitive. A six-hour stay with an SUV — enough, say, to take in a show and a restaurant — would cost a whopping 225 euros ($243), compared to 75 euros for smaller vehicles.
Away from the heart of the city, in Paris’ outer arrondissements numbered 12 through 20, an out-of-town SUV driver would pay 12 euros per hour for the first two hours, progressively rising to 150 euros for six hours.
The mini-referendum was open to Parisians registered to vote. The question they were asked was: “For or against the creation of a specific rate for the parking of heavy, bulky, polluting individual cars?”
AP Article
For all you voting doesn't matter baws this story proves that you are wrong. Only 5.7% of the 1.3 million eligible voters cast ballots and are changing local politics.
Great to see cities and residents doing more to get these comically large vehicles to pay more and hopefully stay out of city centers that are meant for people and not cars.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:55 am to jclem11
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For all you voting doesn't matter baws this story proves that you are wrong. Only 5.7% of the 1.3 million eligible voters cast ballots and are changing local politics.
Unbelievable.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:57 am to LSUballs
You should care. Expect to see this here soon
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:57 am to jclem11
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Great to see cities and residents doing more to get these comically large vehicles
What's your occupation, Karen?
I bet your neighborhood hates you.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:58 am to tiggerthetooth
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Unbelievable.
An individual can have a very outsized impact on local politics and policy simply by being involved, going to city council meetings, and voting.
You can be mad about it but if you want change you have to start at the local level. Daddy Trump ain't going to save you from the grandma or local activists that show up to the weekly city council meetings.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:59 am to jclem11
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Great to see cities and residents doing more to get these comically large vehicles to pay more and hopefully stay out of city centers that are meant for people and not cars.
Boo this man
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:59 am to jclem11
A true sign of the people living under the thumb of authoritarian government is a lack of drive to even vote against policies that only morph and widen the path to full communism
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:59 am to LSUballs
Libertarians wonder why they should care until one day they look up and society is in complete chaos.
You live in the world, don't you? What happens elsewhere can find its way to you. You don't live in an alternate reality.
The same forces at work in Paris are at work all over the west.
You live in the world, don't you? What happens elsewhere can find its way to you. You don't live in an alternate reality.
The same forces at work in Paris are at work all over the west.
This post was edited on 2/6/24 at 8:00 am
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:59 am to jclem11
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An individual can have a very outsized impact on local politics and policy simply by being involved, going to city council meetings, and voting. You can be mad about it but if you want change you have to start at the local level.
This is so damned true.
This post was edited on 2/6/24 at 8:00 am
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:00 am to TROLA
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A true sign of the people living under the thumb of authoritarian government is a lack of drive to even vote against policies that only morph and widen the path to full communism
Indeed. As humans become more incapable, we look to the government to rule every aspect of life.
The OP describes an incapable person who needs government to protect his delicate sensibilities.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
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What's your occupation, Karen?
Not being a drunk deadbeat like you.
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I bet your neighborhood hates you.
I do more for my neighborhood and neighbors than you have done your entire life.
Don't you have a fifth of vodka to down instead of muddling my thread with your same played out insults.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:01 am to elprez00
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You should care. Expect to see this here soon
Where should I expect to see this soon?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:03 am to jclem11
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I do more for my neighborhoo
All Karens think like this, in reality everyone hates you.
Those big ole masculine vehicles scare you!
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:03 am to tiggerthetooth
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Libertarians wonder why they should care until one day they look up and society is in complete chaos.
You live in the world, don't you? What happens elsewhere can find its way to you. You don't live in an alternate reality.
The same forces at work in Paris are at work all over the west.
Exactly this. This story hits on two topics that grinds the OT gears -- the love of big vehicles and their apathy towards voting because of muh deep state.
It is a perfect illustration of how ignoring local politics will frick you over.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:04 am to jclem11
No one likes Parisians. Their own countrymen hate them because anyone not from Paris is treated as a country bumpkin even if they are from another major city in the country.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:04 am to jclem11
Just when we thought the French were waking up.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:05 am to Deek
The French are. Parisians, not so much.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:06 am to Deek
The people protesting in France really ARE the “country bumpkins”, as they are farmers protesting the bullshite Paris od pushing.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:07 am to RogerTheShrubber
GTFO my thread, dude. You are adding nothing but the same boring tired insults that stopped being funny 5 years ago.
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