Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air polluâŚ::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the cityâs efforts to address road safety, air pollution, and climate change.
They can still buy used regular cars. Anyway, in Paris and its suburbs, poor people canât afford a car in the first place.
Thatâs a very ivory-Tower retort - âthey can still buy regular carsâ.
If you can barely put food on the table and NEED a car (eg for work), and nearly nothing in your bank account, do you spend $3000 on a sedan or $1000 on an equally good SUV?
Second hand market prices in general are extremely demand driven, and with vehicles in particular there are so many other costs to vehicle ownership that a change in price wonât shift overall demand much. This just changes the balance pushing SUVs to the bottom of the market. Nobody buying a Porsche SUV in Paris cares about your silly tax.
Tradespeople, they generally own their own tools and bring several boxes to even a basic job, plenty of jobs where you donât need a dedicated truck.
My time in Paris was before we had kids, so I donât know about the logistics there, but in NYC where I did not even think about owning a car for years itâs Very difficult without a car, and there are no more than a few neighborhoods with everything is actually available locally.
Also anyone just starting their business who doesnât have a purpose built vehicle yet - breaking into catering, flower shop, etc.
