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.
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.
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
While I celebrate this as a victory.
4% participation rate in this referendum? We should take a look at the state of politics. That’s a scary low number.
This is not terribly unusual for a municipal referendum vote on Paris. The SUV vote had just under 6% turnout, the electric scooter vote had about 7.5%.