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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Voters will be asked on Feb. 4 whether to impose a “very significant” hike in parking fees for SUVs visiting the city, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Tuesday in a video posted online.

    She hopes the vote will send a message to carmakers to stop "pushing to buy ever-bigger, more expensive, more resource-guzzling, more polluting’’ vehicles.

    City Hall wouldn’t specify the size of the “very significant” hike or when it would take effect if approved.

    Rivals accused Hidalgo of trying to rehabilitate her green credentials with the referendum idea after a city-funded trip across the world to Tahiti in French Polynesia that drew wide scorn.

    Earlier this year, Parisians voted to ban shared electric scooters amid concern about accidents and road nuisance.

    Some half a million spectators are expected along city quays for the opening ceremony on the Seine River, and even more for the rest of the July 26-Aug. 11 events.


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