Plateau adjusts parking vignette to vehicle power
Plateau borough has begun a system of tailoring the cost of a parking vignette to the horsepower of the vehicle engine, so that owners of SUVs and the like will have to shell out more.
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Faiz Imam 11:40 on 2019-11-30 Permalink
And more importantly IMO, the 20% of residents that own of EVs or small engine cars benifit from no increase to their rates.
This is the sort of thing that can change buying choices. Ideally we would have this as part of vehicle registration province wide.
Faiz Imam 12:50 on 2019-11-30 Permalink
Hey wait. Is this something new or something old that I was unaware of?
Turns out saaq does charge higher registration fees for vehicles with cylinder capacity above 4L
https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/saaq/rates-fines/vehicle-registration/additional-registration-fee-large-cylinder-capacity-vehicles/
That’s pretty huge though. Plateau lowering that cutoff to 3.5L is actually a big deal.
Dhomas 14:37 on 2019-11-30 Permalink
This is another issue, like the Camillien-Houde one, that has people (who are affected zero percent by this change) up in arms, based on principle alone. Some folks I know have already started with the ridiculous claims like “as if we don’t get taxed enough! Soon they’ll tax the air we breathe!” The irony of that statement was completely lost on them…