Sorry I missed this. They're saying it's coming this year. They're saying it's very special because no other European city has done it. But other European cities take contactless cards, which presumably includes Apple Pay?!

Happy birthday!

Paris has also experimented with a number of ideas which didn't work – though some bore fruit in later projects. See my series on transport that never was: fabricofparis.com/collections/...

Paris's approach is nothing if not imaginative. Sometimes to a fault –there are several different, incompatible typologies of tramway, for example

Beautiful!

40! That's a pass!

It is deliberately difficult, tbf, even for people who live here

That's pretty good, I think

Today, manufacturers make huge cars because there is more profit there. Whack an exponential tax on them based on weight and things should change. Coupled with safety regs that value the lives of those outside the vehicle as much as those inside

But tweaking parking prices in the urban core of one city won't do much to fix an industry-wide problem. What we need is much tougher regulations on manufacturers, on a supranational level

SUVs are party of a wider issue which is that cars are getting bigger and heavier generally. If this policy means cars that are big, but not huge by modern standards, have to pay more for non-residential parking in the centre of a city with excellent transit, I don't think that's a problem.

But that's still pretty big, no? How much does the battery weigh?

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I'm very fond! Going to Fleet Services as a kid meant I was on my way either to London or somewhere else exciting. And England does motorway service stations very well