Driving in Paris is no picnic and finding somewhere to park can be a nightmare. But it’s about to get even more painful for some drivers when the city introduces tough new parking charges next year aimed at curbing what one councilor termed “auto-besity.”
He’s talking about SUVs, which have become hugely popular in France, and particularly Paris, over the past few years, as they have in almost every part of the world. Parisian officials think SUVs are wasteful and inefficient and plan to hit them with higher parking fees in a bid to cut pollution in the French capital.
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