パリ、「重い」ＳＵＶ駐車料金値上げめぐり住民投票へ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスの首都パリのアンヌ・イダルゴ市長は１４日、重量のあるＳＵＶ（スポーツ用多目的車）の駐車料金を値上げするかを問う住民投票を来年２月に実施する考えを発表した。（写真は仏パリのアンヌ・イダルゴ市長〈資料写真〉）
　市長室は声明で、これまでの「思い切った対策」が功を奏し、市内の車の占有スペースは全般的に減少したが、車の平均的なサイズと重量は増加したと説明した。
　ＳＵＶの重量は、車種によっては２．７トン以上あり、一般的な乗用車の約１．３倍にもなる。
　市長室はＳＵＶについて、「事故を起こしやすく、車体が重くて大きく、汚染源にもなる」とし、「公共のスペースでさまざまな問題を招いている」と指摘した。
　一方でイダルゴ氏は、具体的な値上げ幅や、「重い」とされるＳＵＶ車両の基準については明らかにしていない。
　また、投票で駐車料金の値上げが支持された場合でも、市が発行する居住者用の駐車許可証を取得しているＳＵＶ所有者は対象外となる。
　パリが都市問題をめぐって住民投票を行うのは、これで２度目。今年４月には、電動キックボードを手軽に乗り捨てできるシェアリングサービスの継続の是非を問う住民投票が行われ、その結果同サービスは廃止された。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/11/16-15:20）

The city of Paris will ask residents to vote on a plan to increase parking fees for heavy SUVs, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday.
City hall said in a statement that the overall space taken up by cars had diminished thanks to its determined action but that the average size and weight of cars had gone up.
The vote, to be held in February, will be the second city-wide referendum on urban matters, after residents in April voted to ban rental e-scooters from the capital.
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) can weigh 2,700 kilos or more, around a third more than regular automobiles.
They're accident-prone, heavy, bulky and polluting, the mayor's office said, and had been identified as the cause of many problems in the public space.
Quoted in the statement, Hidalgo said the fee increase would be very significant. She did not, however, give a figure, or say what weight threshold would make an SUV heavy.
If the vote goes in favour of the fee hike, it would not concern SUV owners with residential parking permits issued by the city.
The mayor's office said it hoped to send a message to auto companies inciting them to stop their race to gigantism that is unsuitable to quality of life in the city.
This, it said, would allow an improved sharing of public spaces in favour of clean mobility, streets with schools and pedestrians.
SUVs accounted for 49 percent of new passenger car sales in the European Union last year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association.
In April, Parisians voted overwhelmingly to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital. Turnout for the referendum was 100,000, representing just under 7.5 percent of the capital's registered voters.