Parisians say ‘oui’ to new SUV parking fees
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
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From the BBC World Service: Residents of Paris vote to triple parking fees for SUVs, but only if they’re brought from outside the city. We’ll hear more about the change. But first, revenues from Egypt’s Suez Canal were nearly halved in January. And later, are the terms of Canada’s Sudanese family reunification plan too difficult for families to meet?
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| 0:00.0 | In Paris, it's not Ceyla V, when it comes to SUVs. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Leanna Byrne and a very good morning to you. |
| 0:12.0 | But first, Egypt says the money it makes from the Suez Canal almost halved in January. |
| 0:17.6 | The attacks on shipping by Iran-backed hoothed groups in Yemen that have been happening since November are making |
| 0:23.7 | shipping companies avoid the Red Sea route it's causing widespread disruption to |
| 0:28.0 | global trade. Team and Meister chief operating officer at Dubai-based DP world |
| 0:32.4 | which is one of the world's biggest port |
| 0:34.0 | operators told the BBC, it's likely to carry on into the spring. |
| 0:38.4 | It's just highly unpredictable and when I talk with the know the peers in the industry colleagues |
| 0:44.1 | everybody's suffering from the saying that you know it's been unprecedented in the |
| 0:48.8 | sense you know how difficult it is to predict where this is ending I think this will still be with us for a couple of months. |
| 0:54.9 | That was Tim and Meister, Chief Operating Officer at DP World. Now, Parisians have approved in a recent vote a plan to triple parking fees for people from |
| 1:04.5 | outside the city if they drive SUVs around Paris. Sales have soared for |
| 1:09.5 | SUVs and pickups which according to the city's socialist and green parties, are causing a headache on those narrow streets. |
| 1:16.0 | The BBC's John Lawrenceon has the story. |
| 1:19.0 | New charges will apply to fossil fuel cars over 1.6 tons and e-cars over 2 tons, I meet up with Tony |
| 1:27.0 | Roonucci, Executive Director of the Anti-Air Pollution Nonprofit Respir,, breathe in English. He thinks this referendum is a great idea. |
| 1:36.4 | It will be a very strong and powerful signal to carmakers to tell them stop doing SUV. |
| 1:45.0 | Now you have to focus on smaller and electric vehicles. |
| 1:49.0 | Down in the metro, which is how, says Tony Roonucci, people should get around. |
| 1:55.0 | But Philip Nauseer, president of a non-profit called 40 million motorists, |
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