Paris mayor targets SUVs after electric scooter ban - BBC News
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After winning a city referendum on e-scooters, Anne Hidalgo has a new on-street target in her sights.
  • @SaakoPaahtaaEnglish
    36•1 year ago

    Can fra*ce stop being based, it’s messing with my worldview

    • @Not_mikeyEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      It’s for rental scooters, not all scooters. My guess is two reasons:

      1. They’re left everywhere and can hog probably already crowded Paris sidewalks and bike racks.
      2. They’re mostly used by inexperienced people who don’t know what they’re doing and will ride on sidewalks with little regard for pedestrians, especially in Paris with the large amount of tourists, who the parisians already hate.
    • @kamasuturesEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      I’m making an assumption based on my experience in a smaller American city but they are a nuisance and left anywhere and everywhere. People like to throw them in bodies of water too.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Flush from this year’s victory over banning rental electric scooters, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has a new on-street target in her sights: SUVs.

    Opposition council members in Paris City Hall scent blood over a two-week trip taken by Anne Hidalgo to New Caledonia and French Polynesia in the South Pacific in October.

    It did not help that her absence coincided with the aftermath of the 7 October attacks in Israel, when back in Paris there were serious worries about the Middle East conflict spilling on to the streets.

    It says that extending official visits for personal reasons is an accepted practice, and that Ms Hidalgo paid for the second part of her sojourn as well as the return air-fare.

    Then in French Polynesia the mayor and her party held a number of meetings with local elected officials, before viewing the famous surf spot at Teahupo’o which will be used in next year’s Paris Olympics.

    “There’s something seriously indecent about pointing the finger at a nurse or a builder who has to use their car to come into Paris, when at the same time you’re explaining how it was absolutely essential to fly 30,000km in an airplane,” said opposition councillor Nelly Garnier.

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