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Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 82 points 7 months ago

Everywhere we should start changing parking charges to "by the foot". The longer your car is the more you need to pay. That will incentivize smaller, safer cars for people that don't really have any need for something big.

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Nah, square footage instead of length.

[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 37 points 7 months ago

Cubic feet would be better, especially as taller vehicles are more dangerous to pedestrians.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Let's ban archaic units like feet and stick with cubic meter.

Plus there are vans, so the more accurate metric would be a cubic meter per passenger.

[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah I'd prefer metric, but I was just being consistent with the thread, as the actual units are somewhat beside my point.

Now to find why I didn't get a notification for this reply...

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Ah yeah, that's more accurate to what I was thinking

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Length × Width × Hood Height then?

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, and just register it in a database. Like how I gotta pay $100 more in vehicle registration because my car's 50 fucking kg above the lower bracket. People with F350s can pay triple what I do. No, sextuple! Because they can't fit in just one park. Parking inspector puts in the number plate and machine calculates the rest.