I understand something like a GMC Suburban or a Cadillac Escalade, but the Porsche Macan (in article thumbnail) and many other compact SUVs take up the same curb space and about the same weight and length as a standard sedan.
- Porsche Macan (SUV): 4400lbs, 186.1"
- Honda CRV (SUV): 3285lbs, 184.8"
- Audi A4 (sedan): 3700lbs, 187.5"
- Pegeout 508 (sedan): 3290lbs, 187"
vs
- Cadillac Escalade (SUV): 6200lbs, 211"
- Range Rover (SUV): 6025lbs, 207"
Unless they put weighted meters at every parking space, would be interesting to see how they enforce this. Compact-SUVs are useful and are well equipped for their weight (AWD, safety features, space-efficient).
Here is a cool chart showing weight vs road wear. Not sure how scientific it is, but shows cars around 4000lbs are considered normal wear.
Unless the goal is to move drivers to the subcompact-sedan form factor.
- Mini Cooper: 3144lbs, 159.1"
- Citreon C3: 2226lbs, 156.7"
Then they could make low cost parking spaces ~170" long and any cars that do not fit in that would have to go in the bigger spaces with a higher rate. Very curious how they would implement it without costing the tax payer too much.
Chart seems about right, road wear scales to the 4th power of weight per axle.
Which makes the Range Rover about 40x the road wear of the Citroen C3.
Good. Too bad it will never happen in the US. I’m sick and tired of these shitboxes that destroy visibility and kill people, always being operated by someone clueless (and usually single occupancy).
I dont expect parking fees to affect people who already buyva car that is not economically viable. It hits where it does not hurt.
Here’s the thing: people don’t make decision based on cost, but on what they feel what the cost is. For example: there are studies showing people underestimate the cost of car ownership by a factor of 2. They typically forget about the loss in value and the repair costs. Parking fees (if taken per occasion) are cost that people actually feel every day, making it more likely that they factor into their decision, maybe even more so than fuel costs.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PARIS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Paris aims to drive large sports utility vehicles (SUVs) out of its centre by hiking parking fees for heavy cars in the French capital, and it plans a citizens’ vote on the proposal early next year.
After banning rental scooters in September in the wake of a citizen’s vote, Paris will hold a local referendum on Feb. 4 about “the place of SUVs in the capital”.
“We need to reduce the number and the size of cars in the city, that is why we will submit to a vote the question of how much space there should be for this type of vehicle in Paris,” Deputy Mayor David Belliard, an ecologist, told Reuters.
Under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Paris has for years raised pressure on drivers by increasing parking costs and gradually banning diesel vehicles, while boosting the bicycle lane network in the congested capital.
In a few years, in a few months, they won’t be welcome in Paris with this type of behaviour," Belliard said.
He said Paris also wanted car manufacturers to stop building this type of vehicle because they were too expensive, too polluting and unsuitable for cramped city centres.
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They should drive out large cars before heavy cars.
