I conducenti di auto di grandi dimensioni potrebbero pagare di più per parcheggiare a Bristol – BBC News

“The London Borough of Lambeth is currently proposing a similar strategy, external, turning a quarter of the space along the side of streets into places for trees, benches and bicycle storage.”

Good luck to anyone keeping a bike outside in London!

Weirdly, I was thinking something had to be done about this yesterday. I was looking for somewhere to park on the side of the road and sat there in a row was a smart car, an old Micra and then some bellend in an imported Dodge Ram taking up as much space as the first two cars put together.

I don’t understand, with our limited street space, why such large cars were allowed in the first place. That’s not rhetorical or criticism, I actually don’t know.

Don’t large vehicles already pay more vehicle tax based on emissions? So this will be a double tax almost?

Btw I’m not against tackling large cars but it sounds legally questionable in it’s current form, which explains the future consultation I guess 🤷‍♂️

Is a van classed as a large car under this? I’m not clear. My van is registered as an MPV on the logbook but lots of people with work vans would be penalised.

I don’t understand why extra taxation is the answer.

Want a big car, get a house in the suburbs with a driveway. The main reason for many if not most owners is that it’s a status symbol. Some friends of mine were already to get one before the pandemic, they were looking at all the different SUVs, but because of hybrid working it’d be sat on the driveway all the time so they changed their minds and they still have their VW Golf and it does the job of a family car perfectly well.

Also it’s not the only place Cardiff wants to do similar with SUVs and residents parking in certain areas.

An A6 Avant is the same wheel base as a Range.

It’s the ideal family wagon

You can’t take 2 kids out with pushchairs and all the stuff required in an A1. If you think you can, you don’t have kids.

The height of a vehicle, which is really aggs people, is totally irrelevant to space being taken up for parking.

Rather than fap over what’s big and what’s not, just go for number of cylinders. You don’t get V8 hatchbacks, but you do get V8 SUVs, giant Wagons etc, also you’re focusing on the emissions element at the same time.

My RS4… 336g/km CO2.. my Volvo Hybrid 49g/km.. which one is someone going to take out when you’re considering the already extortionate parking costs.. 7x the emissions.. pull a number out of your arse of what multiplier to charge.

There are a lot of salty people here, who seem upset at people preferring a 4×4 versus their small car.. state of this place..

I get quite wound up living in a city with a narrow enough street where it’s on street parking for residents. The amount of people that have big SUV’s makes it so hard to squeeze my small car into a spot near my house. (yes I know it’s not my spot if its a public street).

The street gets so narrow as well because of these massive cars. Why on earth would someone who lives a half hour walk from a city centre need a range rover?