Paris mayor to ask voters to decide on ‘significant’ parking fee hike for SUVs

Cars drive on the Champs Elysee avenue in Paris (Christophe Ena/AP)

Does Paris have too many SUVs? The French capital’s mayor is putting that question to voters in the run-up to next year’s Olympic Games.

It is the latest salvo in Anne Hidalgo’s long-running campaign to make the city more friendly to pedestrians and the planet, and less friendly to cars.