About 55% of Parisians approve of tripling the parking rate for heavy cars

Parking in Paris may soon cost more with SUVs. Voters in the capital voted in favor of tripling parking prices for large cars on Sunday 4 February. About 1.3 million voters were invited to vote to make the decision “For or against the formation of specific rates for parking of heavy, bulky, polluting private cars”. The “For” party won with 54.55% of the votes, a very low turnout at the end of the day, less than 6%.

According to the municipality’s project, the user of a thermal or plug-in hybrid vehicle weighing more than 1.6 tons (or two tons for an electric vehicle) will soon have to pay 18 euros per hour for parking in the central districts of the capital and 12 euros for the outer districts. This will improve “For application on September 1, to be presented at the meeting of the Paris Council next May”Anne Hidalgo, announced Sunday evening, expressed her “Pride” of consequence.