SUV drivers will pay an 'auto-besity' fee for parking in Paris
are expected to escape the increased fees that are supposed to come into effect on January 1 next year ., Paris councilors approved the measure in an unanimous vote last month. Frédéric Badina-Serpette, a councilor from the EELV ecology party that proposed the increased charges, said the aim was “to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity … the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris.
Officials say the number of SUVs in the city has increased by 60 percent in the past four years, and they now make up 15 percent of the 1.15 million private vehicles that choke Parisian streets. David Belliard, a deputy mayor responsible for public space and mobility policy, said SUVs were incongruous in an urban environment. “There are no dirt paths, no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture,” Belliard said, according to the
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