The price of SUV parking will indeed triple in Paris.
“This pricing will be applied from next September 1,” Anne Hidalgo (PS), mayor of Paris, announced this Sunday evening on her WhatsApp thread.
Residents of the capital no longer want to see SUVs on their streets and they made this known during the vote organized this Sunday, February 4.
54.55% (42,415 people) of them were in favor of increasing the price of parking for “heavy, polluting and bulky” vehicles.
David Belliard (EELV), deputy mayor of Paris, confirmed it again this Monday, February 5 on the BFMTV set: “The result is clear, so we are going to do it,” declared the elected official.
We are going to have a deliberation at the Paris council in May, and I think that at the start of the school year, we will be able to put it in place effectively.”
Note, however, the very low participation, since only 5.7% of those registered, or 78,121 out of 1,374,532, went to the polls in one of the 222 polling stations deployed for the occasion.
A result which remains legitimate according to Ian Brossat (PCF), senator from Paris, guest of Public Senate this Monday morning.
“The result shows that there is a majority in Paris who consider that priority is given to the environment and the reduction of polluting cars.
It follows positions that Parisians have always defended, on the pedestrianization of riverside roads, on the development of cycle paths, etc.
", he considered before adding on his X account: "Some people spend hours commenting on surveys carried out on 500 people, so when 80,000 Parisians express themselves on a subject, the least they can do is to take it into account.”
“Principle of polluters paying”
“Despite fairly strong divisions between east and west, the choice of Parisians is very clear in all the districts,” Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, also reacted Sunday evening during a press conference at the 'city Hall.
For her part, Sandrine Rousseau, deputy for the 9th district of Paris, also a guest of Public Senate this Monday, wanted to recall that the “principle of polluters paying on very large cars which are very ostentatious objects” was welcome , specifying that family cars were, for the most part, not affected by this measure.
Present on the RMC morning show, Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor of Paris, denied an “inconsistency” in the vote.
“Parisians, like everyone else, when they are in rotating parking, they will pay like the others.
Simply, for residential parking, it seems fair to us to say that those who leave their vehicle outside their home instead of using it should not be penalized.”