SUV's - cities, public spaces and regulation

Good work(ish), France.
Sadly it seems electric might be excempt, suspect they are the most auto-bese.

Paris city hall is to impose higher parking fees on owners of SUVs in
its battle to reduce pollution in the capital.

Paris councillors approved the measure in an unanimous vote last
month. Frédéric Badina-Serpette, a councillor from the EELV ecology
party that proposed the increased charges, said: “We would like the
city of Paris to change the pricing of paid parking to make it
progressive according to the weight and size of vehicles.”

He said the aim was “to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity … the
inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in
our cities, and particularly in Paris”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/paris-charge-suv-drivers-higher-parking-fees-tackle-auto-besity

Love the last sentence

excellent! would love the UK/london to focus on this. expanding ULEZ out to heathrow shouldn't be the priority imo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12288041/Land-Rover-driver-mortified-note-saying-4x4-owners-free-NHS-penis-enlargement-therapy.html

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvh02wkuGMP/

Fingers crossed that is a write off

Ha!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces

Parking spaces AND roads

Apologies for the spammy local news site:

Tyres deflated on more than 100 SUVs and 4x4s in Bristol overnight
The group say they are young people who know it will 'cause extreme frustration and resentment' but they are 'left with no other option'

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/tyres-deflated-more-100-suvs-8845965?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_mobile

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dej2pypd2o.amp

Fully behind this. Doubt it'll actually put put people off owning them though.

I don't think it will make much difference. My brother is one of these people and he is happy to pay the mega initial road tax to drive around in his fucking ridiculous vehicle, a bit extra to park would be water off a duck's back.

Haringey currently has a proposal based on length but it's only an extra 5%/10% of the parking fee and if it's electric or hybrid that is already pretty low.

Most of the quotes in that are total facepalm

somehow, of the 5000 vehicles imported into europe, two Dodge Rams have ended up in my village of 13 houses...

There's a yellow NYC cab in Blackheath