The municipality of the French capital last week adopted a proposal to study the possibility of “progressive pricing of parking according to duration, motorization, size and weight of cars”.
Are large cars in the sights of the Parisian municipality? Apparently yes. And above all, SUVs. Authorities in the French capital plan to follow Lyon’s example by introducing degressive parking pricing based on vehicle weight, which means that the car park for SUVs it would be more expensive than for small cars.
The municipality last week adopted a proposal to study the possibility of “progressive pricing of parking depending on the duration, motorization, size and weight of cars”, reports the portal Le Local.
“We want the city of Paris to modify the price of paid parking to make it progressive according to the weight and size of the vehicles”, thus launched the city councilor Frédéric Badina-Serpette, elected ecologist in the 18th arrondissement, in the room , taking the example of the decision taken by the environmentalist mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, a few days ago, details the newspaper Le Figaro.
The city of Lyon, in the south-east of the country, adopted a similar weight-related parking pricing policy in May, which will come into effect in January 2024.
In the case of Paris, the voted text undertakes to “establish on January 1, 2024 a progressive parking fee according to the duration, motorization, size and weight of the cars”.
The capital’s tariff plan is, at this stage, non-binding and, unlike the plan fully adopted in Lyon, does not yet include additional details, including possible price levels.
The adopted proposals, however, contain a recommendation for a “solidarity rate for low-income families, as well as for large families”.
On the executive side, David Belliard, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the transformation of public space, transport, mobility, the street code and roads, showed himself “very favorable” to this desire, and assured that he was “already working in this area”. calling SUVs “ecological aberrations.”
Council environmentalists welcomed the decision, pointing to the increase in vehicle size: between 1960 and 2017, cars’ weight increased by 62%, their width by 14% and their height by 21%, the report said. Councilor Frédéric Badina Serpette, describing the problem as “auto-obesity”. “So what can we do?” he asked, before answering: “apply the polluter-pays principle”.
Large vehicles, including SUVs, consume more fuel and emit more fine particles, while a study by insurer Axa revealed that large 4x4s are involved in 25% more accidents than any other type of vehicle. vehicle. Another study reports that pedestrians are twice as likely to be killed in a collision with an SUV compared to a sedan, according to The Local.
In Lyon, the municipality decided that, from the próximo año, the residential tariffs oscillate between los 15 and los 45 euros monthly, in function of the peso del vehículo, frente a los 20 euros monthly actual de tariffa plana para un permiso de parking en the street.
Under pending rules in the southeastern French city, owners of an internal combustion car weighing less than 1,000 kilos or an electric vehicle weighing less than 2,200 kilos will pay 15 euros; for a thermal car over 1,725 kilos, a plug-in hybrid over 1,900 kilos or an electric vehicle over 2,200 kilos, the price will be 45 euros. On the other hand, details Le Local, for medium-weight range vehicles, the monthly price of permits will be 30 euros.
Source: Latercera
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