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to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
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Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers (www.lemonde.fr)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You are deeply unserious if your proposal is just “ban all cars lulz”.

Nice straw man buddy. What we're actually talking about merits of making SUVs a privilege for the rich or banning them.

Congestion pricing and paid parking have objectively reduced traffic in downtowns across the world, and you are deeply unserious if you want to achieve a goal but refuse to do anything to work towards that goal.

Perhaps, it's silly to claim this is the only approach possible.

You are seriously advocating for the massive subsidization of drivers here. I do not weep for the ability of the common man to impose massive externalities on their fellow men and have their behavior be subsidized.

I'm not, but keep on straw manning there. Seems to be what you excel at.

You are acting as if driving cars is a God-given right that poor people are being denied.

Nope, but I've already realized that having a serious discussion with you isn't possible. Bye.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Nice straw man buddy. What we're actually talking about merits of making SUVs a privilege for the rich or banning them.

SUVs have always been a privilege for the rich. You are advocating for the democratization of SUVs, which I am against. What's next? Single-family detached houses for everyone?

Why are you even posting in fuck_cars? You are literally advocating for the American suburb: where everyone has the privileges of the rich: a detached house and two SUVs.

I'm not, but keep on straw manning there. Seems to be what you excel at.

This is literally your position. Your logic is completely indistinguishable from that of pro-car concern trolling.

Nope, but I've already realized that having a serious discussion with you isn't possible. Bye.

And you are simply a deeply unserious person who says they want something but in actuality are advocating for the exact opposite. Good riddance!