Paris prepared to ban gas-guzzling off-road vehicles

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THE GUARDIAN , PARIS
Friday, Jun 11, 2004,Page 7

Oversized, gas-guzzling 4x4s could be banned from the increasingly traffic-clogged streets of Paris within the next 18 months following a resolution passed by the city's council.

"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 on Wednesday.

"They're polluters, they're space-occupiers, they're dangerous for pedestrians and other road users. They're a caricature of a car," he said.

Under the resolution, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) could be banned from Paris city center during peak pollution periods and their owners denied residents' parking permits.

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1. I bet this will be good for some entertaining neocon anti-french quotes

cheese-eating SUV-haters. LOL!

[NNadir]

2. I think the polite form is

"cheese eating SUV-hating surrender monkeys."