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In Paris, the price of paid parking will increase for SUVs from 1 January 2024

2023-06-08T19:42:35.551Z

Highlights: Parisian elected officials voted on Thursday a wish relating to the increase in parking rates for SUVs. "We want the City of Paris to change the pricing of paid parking to make it progressive according to the weight and size of vehicles," said Frédéric Badina-Serpette, elected ecologist in the 18th arrondissement. "A measure of common sense" according to environmentalists, who believe SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, take up too much space and degrade the roadway.


A few days after the decision of the mayor of Lyon to charge more for parking to the largest vehicles next year, the Parisian elected officials have in turn voted a wish in this direction, this Thursday, June 8 at the Council of Paris.


Are big cars in the sights of the Parisian municipality? Meeting at the Paris Council on Thursday, Parisian elected officials voted on Thursday a wish relating to the increase in parking rates for SUVs, carried by ecologists and supported by the executive. "We want the City of Paris to change the pricing of paid parking to make it progressive according to the weight and size of vehicles," said Frédéric Badina-Serpette, elected ecologist in the 18th arrondissement, in the hemicycle, taking the example of the decision taken by the ecologist mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, a few days ago.

See alsoSUVs and large vehicles will pay more for parking in Lyon from 2024

The polluter pays principle invoked

The elected official wishes to "focus on an absurdity: autobesity", which he qualifies by "the inexorable growth of the weight and size of car vehicles circulating in our cities, and especially in Paris". According to him, "between 1960 and 2017, the weight of vehicles increased on average by 62%, their width by 14%, and their height by 21% (...) Except that our public space is not extensible." "So what can we do?" he asked, before answering: "applying the polluter-pays principle."

Concretely, it would therefore be a question of charging more for owners of large cars who park in the capital's paid parking spaces, in proportion to the size and weight of the car. And this, "from January 1, 2024". And in order not to penalize Parisians who have no choice but to travel by SUV, it is planned that an "adapted solidarity tariff" is applied "to families with the lowest incomes" as well as "to large families who sometimes need a larger vehicle to move". "A measure of common sense" according to environmentalists, who believe that SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, take up too much space and degrade the roadway.

On the executive side, David Belliard, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the transformation of public space, transport, mobility, the street code and roads, said he was "very favorable" to this wish, and assured to be "already working on it", describing SUVs as "ecological aberration". The elected ecologist also confirmed that the pricing "will have to take into account the size of the households so as not to penalize large families and in particular the most modest".

Unsurprisingly, on the other side of the political spectrum, the elected representatives of the Parisian right voted against, without expressing themselves from the rostrum. Asked about this, the group Change Paris - chaired by the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris Rachida Dati - only regretted that the measure "only targets Parisian residents as in Lyon" and "shows once again that the mayor of Paris takes Parisians for a cash drawer".

Source: lefigaro

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