Tag: Parisians

  • Parisians Vote To Make It Much More Expensive To Park SUVs In City

    Parisians Vote To Make It Much More Expensive To Park SUVs In City

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    PARIS (AP) — Parisians voted Sunday to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park from fall, 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. More than 54%…

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  • Parisians Want to Bring Their Neighbors Closer Together. But First, Cheese.

    Parisians Want to Bring Their Neighbors Closer Together. But First, Cheese.

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    A series about how cities transform, and the effect of that on everyday life. As the sky began to tint lemon-yellow one evening last month, 50 or so Parisians marched along to the Rue de l’Aude in the south of the city and gathered in a nautically themed loft space filled with chairs. Some of…

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  • Parisians vote to ban e-scooters from French capital

    Parisians vote to ban e-scooters from French capital

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    PARIS — An overwhelming majority of Parisians voted to ban electric scooters from the streets of the French capital on Sunday, in a non-binding referendum that city authorities have said they would follow. The ban won between 85.77% and 91.77% of the votes in the 20 Paris districts that published results, according to the City of Paris website…

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