Paris, controversy over the anti-SUV referendum. Rates tripled but only for “visitors”
Paris declares war on SUV, parking costs tripled for bulkier cars. The citizens of the French capital decided this through a referendum. 54.55% of Parisians – we read in Repubblica – voted in favor of the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo's proposal to increase parking rates for SUVs, even though only 5% of those entitled to vote went to vote. The opponents attacked the initiative, recognizing it yet another “crusade against cars” by the mayor of the capital. The formulation of the question, according to which one had to vote “yes” to vote against SUVs and “no” if one was in favor, was targeted by criticism. Finally, rain of complaints and ironies that parking prices will be tripled only for “visitors” from neighboring municipalities and not for SUVs residents in Paris.
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According to the municipality's project, – continues Repubblica – anyone who uses a car over 1.6 tonsor an electric one above 2 tonsHe will have to pay 18 euros per hour for one car park in the central districts of the capital, and 12 for the more peripheral ones. The campaign for the vote had been intense in recent days between those for and against SUVs. The environmental activists had plastered the walls of the capital with signed posters “The road is ours”also sending a large amount of information and propaganda material to voters.
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