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Episode: Parisians vote to hit SUVs with eye-popping parking costs in latest green drive before Olympics
Description: Parisians voted on February 4 to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September, the latest leg in a drive-by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games greener and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists.
More than 54% of the votes cast in the low-turnout election supported the measure to triple parking fees for large SUV drivers from out of town to 18 euros ($19.50) per hour in the city’s center, according to official results from City Hall. Only 5.7% of the 1.3 million eligible voters cast ballot...