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

In other news: Peugeot and Renault announce 1.59 ton Urban Utility Vehicles.

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

I drive a Jeep (the unlimited though, so the large one). Good..

I want to see a trend towards smaller 4wd's and other cars. And I seem to be the only larger car that can park within the lines too. And the height of my car is low compared to the people with Rangers or Dodge Ram's (and it is rare to see any of those actually towing anything). In my case, I run a hiking group, so really need a 4wd, but will probably be looking at something more economical and smaller, like a jimny

I was hit by a car once when I was on my scooter, and I was lucky it was by a small car..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All this arguing over progressive fining versus just slashing the tyres of all parked SUVs you see.

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

I had this idea of putting construction foam into the exhaust.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

tyre extinguishers are based as fuck and they have caused a nonzero amount of people to reconsider their purchase of an SUV or to not drive their SUV downtown

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I own an SUV and I'd still vote for a parking tax on them. Or pay per pound, estimated of course. You don't want people deciding to go for the mega F-250s because they aren't subject to the SUV tax.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have two: A Ford Explorer (really trying to get the money to get rid of it) and a Forester. The Forester is small enough that it wouldn't be triple pay in Paris, but the Explorer is a 3 ton brick. We had it because a few years back we still had six kids at home, but now that they're filtering off to college, we are desperate to downsize. We're being stopped because our city's public transit (yay US cities) is a shitshow and our workplaces haven't given us raises in years. Yes, we're looking for other work, but so far it's been tough to find things in our field, etc.

As soon as we can, that vehicle is being kicked to the curb. It's a terrible waste.

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

Yeah I similarly got the SUV because of kids and I think there are use cases for them, they're just vastly overpurchased and a tax could curb that.

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