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Paris may hit SUVs with eye-popping parking costs

Hidalgo is looking for voters’ backing for a proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers from out of town

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An SUV car drives on the Champs Elysees avenue, near to the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Pic/AP

An SUV car drives on the Champs Elysees avenue, near to the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Pic/AP

Parisians were voting Sunday whether to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park, the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games greener and friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists.

Hidalgo is looking for voters’ backing for a proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers from out of town.

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