Paris periphery parking

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It may still be possible by train but we will see on Monday. However strikes make the trip to Paris look annoying - wondering about driving and parking on the edge near the RER ( it ran a skeleton service last week). Any idea where may be same - ie avoid the worst of the traffic jams. Beyond Orly or Versailles I’m stuck - southern edge of Paris.

Driving into Paris isn’t happening - I am not catching a 1am bus. So as close to the edge as possible with rer looks the sensible solution.

The Paris equivalent of South Morden is what I need

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Disneyland Paris?

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Where are you coming from and which motorways will you be using? And roughly what time do you hope to be in Paris.

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Your difficulty will be parking, as many others will be thinking the same as you. Look at the P&R sites (parkings relais), or maybe the airports?

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We always park at Antony and walk to the RER B (100mts).

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Thanks. That looks a decent bet

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Just watch out for the pickpockets

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Doesn’t that apply universally in cities, and on public transport?

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Antony works well - thanks for that.

We tried St Remy Les Chevreuse last week - that doesn’t work at all - 13 hour maximum stay in the car parks and on street parking. Right at the end of the RER B

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From 1st October 2024 the latest Paris attack on motorists is under way.

The new superhigh parking costs to park in Paris applicable to the newly invented category of “SUV parking”, start then. Currently it’s not just SUV 's, but any vehicle of 1.6 tonnes or more (petrol/diesel). And EV’s 2 tonnes and over.

Rest assured that as this charge was invented as a revenue-raiser at least as much as any other reason, the scope of vehicles that must pay these super-high parking rates will surely be expanded to other, smaller vehicles in the future.

Any parking fines on these vehicles are now supercharged too. And in most places most of the week you can only park a maximum of 6 hours after you obtain your mortgage to pay it.

Read it and weep, if you could be affected.

Lyon has also already started something similar apparently. How dare you drive a car!

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fascinating site… but I think I’m glad I don’t live there…
Friends live in Herblay and as my geography is naff… I’ve no idea how they cope or, indeed, if they are affected… although I know they have friends and family all over Paris so they’ll be implicated one way or another…

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Frankly, you’d have to be mad to drive a car in Paris by choice. I have to do it reasonably frequently and I’d really rather not.

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Well, an SUV anyway and to be fair they are mostly ghastly.

I would imagine most non-SUV A-, B- or C- segment cars will be OK with just a few tipping the scales over 1600kg (BMW M135i is, give-or-take, 1600kg for example).

But do you not think gradual disincentives to driving cars into increasingly overcrowded city centres is actually what is needed, rather than complaining about another “attack on motorists” ?

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