Transport
Do as the French do – should Ireland also examine forcing SUVs out of our cities?
Paris is voting on a range of new charges that would effectively force large SUVs out of the city centre
Parisians go to the ballot boxes on Sunday to vote on new regulations to curtail the use of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in their city.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, has posed the question to the city’s inhabitants: should hybrid, petrol, or diesel SUVs weighing over 1.6 tonnes and electric cars over two tonnes pay €18 per hour while in the centre and €12 per hour in other areas?
This would represent a 200 ...
