Not sure how it works in Paris/London, but the other day I parked behind a gigantic US style pick-up. That monstruosity was longer than the parking spot, but also wider with like 10-15 cm on the street. This is messing with cyclist, car on the road, but also people who want to park behind you and don’t have the usual reference.
Seriously, if you don’t fit on a parking spot, you should be towed away. If you want to drive a truck, go in a truck parking which are usually in industrial area away from the city.
This is the correct solution: Don’t cater to anti-social consumer choices, but tow religiously.
I’ve seen pickups in France parked with their backs on the grass because they don’t fit. Some park diagonally over two spots to fit, and that’s an improvement over just taking four spots.
Although it would be fun to see their reaction if there would be designated spots for “big-boned vehicles” on the far end of the lot.
Yes pls
we need car parks with height barriers that exclude the suv’s. people in range rover sports SUVs worth 80k aren’t worried by an extra tenner on the parking fee. now imagine their ‘car’ won’t fit…
I like Khan because he is one of the few remaining politicians in power in the UK who are unashamedly pro-European
Should do the same with the congestion charge too.
So rich people can continue to use them without issue?
Only rich people are driving SUVs in London regularly.
It’s not a perfect plan, but it puts a stigma on the entire thing. And also this might put people that can afford it in a place where they at least think about what they’re doing.
I’m not too bad off, but also I’m trying not to be an asshole about it. So I have a small, electric hatchback for my daily driving and a large, gas guzzling offroader for when I go and work in my forest, pull a trailer to lug stuff around or, to be honest, for a nice, top open weekend drive with my dog in the mountains. And back when I was living in the city, I had an electric cargo bike and those two others mostly sat in storage. Coming from a very rural area, my friends telling me that some behaviours are just shit when living close by with others was, what got me thinking in the first place. If a fee can trigger that, its not a bad idea.
With growing older, I’ve come to accept grey solutions that sort of work over kicking out not-absolutely-perfect solutions until they are absolutely perfect. And with playing a lot of Kerbal Space Program, I’ve come to accept that putting a little effort and delta-V into something and then waiting for a while is often a lot easier, or, possible at all, than trying to fix everything immediately with a breakerbar.
I guess at least it’s something.
@Marsupial at least they won’t be that widespread for the time being.
It’s already like 12 pounds an hour
London has some of the best, if not the best intra-city public transport on Earth. Few people need to drive there at all.
And they definitely don’t need to drive SUVs or pickups.
I’m not one of those privileged idiots who cry about people having cars. I have cars and intend to for the rest of my days. I like cars, like working on cars, and I like the engineering that goes into them. I like being able to actually leave my village. I understand that cars are necessary for a huge amount of people.
But again, this is London we’re talking about… you’re fine without a car. Doubly so some gargantuan US-market monstrosity that should never have been allowed on public roads in the first place.
I live on Tyneside and one of the things that I’m constantly reminded of when I go literally anywhere else is just how good our public transport links are.
That said… the first time I went to London? Blown away. It’s on a whole other level in that city.
And as long as a concerning amount of people still choose to drive them, it must be
