SUV ban for Paris and London
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:54 pm
"They're polluters, they're space-occupiers, they're dangerous for pedestrians and other road users. They're a caricature of a car."
"Off-road vehicles are just not suited to towns and you have to wonder why people drive them," Denis Baupin, a senior Green party councillor who tabled the resolution, said yesterday.
Under the resolution, SUVs (sports utility vehicles), (...), could be banned from Paris city centre during peak pollution periods, and their owners denied residents' parking permits. (...)
The plan (...) follows similar remarks by the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who last month described 4x4 vehicles as "bad for London - completely unnecessary" and called their owners "complete idiots".
Taken from the Guardian.co.uk
"Off-road vehicles are just not suited to towns and you have to wonder why people drive them," Denis Baupin, a senior Green party councillor who tabled the resolution, said yesterday.
Under the resolution, SUVs (sports utility vehicles), (...), could be banned from Paris city centre during peak pollution periods, and their owners denied residents' parking permits. (...)
The plan (...) follows similar remarks by the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who last month described 4x4 vehicles as "bad for London - completely unnecessary" and called their owners "complete idiots".
Taken from the Guardian.co.uk