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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian (www.reuters.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.

The referendum will eliminate 10,000 more parking spots in Paris, adding to the 10,000 removed since 2020. The city's two million residents will be consulted on which streets will become pedestrian areas.

Paris town hall data shows car traffic in the city has more than halved since the Socialists took power in the capital at the turn of the century.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

Holy, Paris is based

This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many years, following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters, and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.

Banning e-scooters is dumb because they replace cars, but the triple parking charges for large SUVs is amazing

The 500 additional streets to be pedestrianised will bring the total number of these so-called "green lungs" to nearly 700, just over one-tenth of the capital's streets.

So based.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

The SUV parking-fee hike is almost comically punitive - the calculation is a bit complicated but it can reach €225 for six hours

PS: Why are people downvoting this? Are people here really so fragile and hypersensitive that they have to stamp on the slightest suspicion of dissidence from the One Approved Opinion? This was a completely neutral observation and FWIW I APPROVE of the fee. Jeez. Get a life, people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

other poster downvote other poster must detect enemies ME HATE ENEMIES me also downvote

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Haha that's exactly it

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